![]() Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any natural material, properties that are used in major industrial applications such as cutting and polishing tools. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, but diamond is metastable and converts to it at a negligible rate under those conditions. Transparent to subtransparent to translucentÄiamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Less often blue, green, black, translucent white, pink, violet, orange, purple, and red. ![]() Typically yellow, brown, or gray to colorless. Its lustrous faces also indicate that this crystal is from a primary deposit. The slightly misshapen octahedral shape of this rough diamond crystal in matrix is typical of the mineral.
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