Astronomers Discover Earth-Sized Diamond 112
ygslash (893445) writes Astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory announced that they have discovered what appears to be the coolest white dwarf ever detected. The white dwarf is formerly a star similar to our own sun which, after expending all of its fuel, has cooled to less than a chilly 3000 degrees Kelvin and contracted to a size approximately the same as Earth. A white dwarf is composed mostly of carbon and oxygen, and the astronomers believe that at that temperature it would be mostly crystallized, forming something like a huge diamond.
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Units (Score:5, Insightful)
Isn't it supposed to just be "3000 Kelvin"?
Re:DeBeers (Score:5, Insightful)
They're pissed that we found the place where they dump the surplus so they could claim that diamonds were rare.