{"id":12346,"date":"2022-11-02T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:30:26","slug":"lonsdaleite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/02\/lonsdaleite\/","title":{"rendered":"lonsdaleite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/16\/world\/space-diamond-lonsdaleite-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"maincontent\">Meet the mystery diamond from outer space<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/madeline-holcombe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Madeline Holcombe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/220914175831-rmit-microscopy-microanalysis-facility.jpg?c=16x9&amp;q=h_270,w_480,c_fill\" alt=\"(From left) Dougal McCulloch, a professor at RMIT University, with Salek and Tomkins at the RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility in Australia. McCulloch was another coauthor of the study.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(From left) Dougal McCulloch, a professor at RMIT University, with Salek and Tomkins at the RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility in Australia. McCulloch was another coauthor of the study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have debated its existence. Tiny traces provided clues. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of a celestial diamond after finding it on Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stone, called lonsdaleite, has a hardness and strength that exceeds that of a regular diamond. The rare mineral arrived here by way of a meteorite, new research has suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, the natural chemical process through which scientists believe lonsdaleite formed could inspire a way to manufacture super-durable industrial components, according to the authors of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.2208814119\" target=\"_blank\">study published September 12 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/16\/world\/space-diamond-lonsdaleite-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Meet the mystery diamond from outer space By\u00a0Madeline Holcombe Scientists have debated its existence. Tiny traces provided clues. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of a celestial diamond after finding it on Earth\u2019s surface. The stone, called lonsdaleite, has a hardness and strength that exceeds that of a regular diamond. The rare mineral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}