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Ureilite cross-section showing lonsdaleite, captured with CSIRO’s electron probe microanalyser. Iron in red, magnesium in green, silicon in blue, lonsdaleite in yellow and diamond in pink.

Ureilite cross-section showing lonsdaleite, captured with CSIRO’s electron probe microanalyser. Iron in red, magnesium in green, silicon in blue, lonsdaleite in yellow and diamond in pink.

Australia's national science agency, CSIRO teamed with Monash University, RMIT University, the Australian Synchrotron and Plymouth University, to look for the elusive hexagonal diamonds in a large sample...

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