Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.

In mineralogy diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas unbreakable) is a metastable allotrope of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at standard conditions.

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