A pair of diamonds 💎 that formed deep in Earth’s 🌍 malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual that researchers thought their coexistence was “almost impossible.” The study was published in Nature Geoscience.
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Scientific American
‘Almost Impossible’ Deep-Earth Diamonds Confirm How These Gems Form
Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form