(Nanowerk News) An international team of scientists has found evidence of an unconventional melting process in diamond induced by an X-ray laser beam. While in conventional melting the atoms of a ...

Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus, according to a new report. The research, published in Nature Physics, is based on the first ...

The inability of diamond to stand up to fusion could be a major setback for abundant, available fusion power. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Science often requires access to some of ...

PRESSURE that can melt diamond, an electromagnetic pulse that can kill, and enough current to light 100 million light bulbs. Such are the extremes within the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories ...

Researchers have discovered a new phenomenon of so-called metastability in a liquid phase. This state is common in supercooled liquids, which are liquids that cool below the freezing point without ...

Part of Chemistry (Single Science) Unit 1: Structures, trends, chemical reactions, quantitative chemistry and analysis In chemistry, ‘bonding’ describes how atoms are held together. ‘Structure’ ...

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