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Diamond is a mineral with the chemical formula C. It has a Mohs' hardness of 10 and a density of 3.515. The refractive index is 2.384. Mechanical properties include a shear modulus of 478 and a tensile modulus of elasticity of 1050. The standard molar entropy is 2.377.
Classification systems assign the Nickel-Strunz 9th edition code "1.CB.10a" and the 10th edition review code "1.CB.10a". The Strunz 8th edition series ID is "I/B.02b". The MCN code is "7104.20.10". The IMA Mineral Symbol is "Dia". The Unicode character is "💎".
The subject is referenced by 2,453 other encyclopedia articles. A PubMed query for diamond yields a count of 42939. Commons categories and galleries include "Diamonds" and "Diamond".
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Diamond
- Mineral.category
- Native minerals
- Mineral.image
- Rough Diamond.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.alt
- An irregular shaped brownish diamond
- Mineral.caption
- A rough diamond
- Mineral.formula
- C
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Dia
- Mineral.strunz
- 1.CB.10a
- Mineral.dana
- 1.3.6.1
- Mineral.color
- Typically yellow, brown, or gray to colorless. Less often blue, green, black, translucent white, pink, violet, orange, purple, and red.
- Mineral.habit
- Octahedral
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fdm (No. 227)
- Mineral.twinning
- Spinel law common (yielding "macle")
- Mineral.cleavage
- 111 (perfect in four directions)
- Mineral.fracture
- Irregular/Uneven
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Research
42,939 papers- Diamond in the Rough: Toward Improved Materials for the Bone-Implant Interface.ReviewAdvanced healthcare materials · 2021Fong JSL, Booth MA, Rifai A et al.DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202100007
- Ultrathin Diamond Nanofilms-Development, Challenges, and Applications.ReviewSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2021Handschuh-Wang S, Wang T, Tang YDOI: 10.1002/smll.202007529
- Diamond rotors.Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997) · 2023Golota NC, Fredin ZP, Banks DP et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2023.107475
- Diamond nanostructures for drug delivery, bioimaging, and biosensing.ReviewChemical Society reviews · 2017Chen X, Zhang WDOI: 10.1039/c6cs00109b
- A review of diamond dosimeters in advanced radiotherapy techniques.ReviewMedical physics · 2024Angelou C, Patallo IS, Doherty D et al.DOI: 10.1002/mp.17370
- Diamond based adsorbents and their application in chromatography.ReviewJournal of chromatography. A · 2014Peristyy AA, Fedyanina ON, Paull B et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2014.06.044
- The Gemstone Cyborg: How Diamond Films Are Creating New Platforms for Cell Regeneration and Biointerfacing.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Santos NE, Mendes JC, Braga SSDOI: 10.3390/molecules28041626
- Diamond particles in toothpastes: in-vitro effect on the abrasive enamel wear.BMC oral health · 2022Hamza B, Abdulahad A, Attin T et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12903-022-02274-3
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- gemstone
- Has part
- carbon
- Named after
- Invincible
- Material used
- carbon
- Image
- Rough Diamond.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Diamond
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- streak color
- white
- Mohs' hardness
- 10
- Commons category
- Diamonds
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 1.CB.10a
- chemical formula
- C
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 1.CB.10a
- Commons gallery
- Diamond
- MCN code
- 7104.20.10
- density
- 3.515
- crystal habit
- octahedron
- refractive index
- 2.384
- mineral fracture
- conchoidal fracture
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- shear modulus
- 478
- standard molar entropy
- 2.377
- tensile modulus of elasticity
- 1050
- Unicode character
- 💎
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Dia
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- I/B.02b
- Stack Exchange tag
- physics.stackexchange.com/tags/diamond
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