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What element is found in diamonds pencils and everywhere on earth?
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Carbon.
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Where are chocolate diamonds mined in Africa?
'Chocolate diamonds' is a trade name for brown diamonds. Brown diamonds are the most common colour of gem-quality diamonds found everywhere on earth except Europe and Antarctica.
What element makes diamonds valuable?
It isn't the element (carbon) that makes a diamond valuable: it's the availability of the diamond allotrope of carbon, and its limited occurrence on earth.
What is true about diamonds?
Diamonds are the hardest mineral on earth.
Where is the element carbon found on earth?
Carbon is found in the earth as diamonds, graphite, and coal and coke the structure is different in each name.
Do diamonds have a special property?
Yes, diamonds are the hardest natural mineral on earth.
Can a tyranosaurusrex skull break diamonds?
No.Diamond is the hardest element on earth, and is only affected by other diamonds.
Where are chocolate diamonds mined in Africa?
'Chocolate diamonds' is a trade name for brown diamonds. Brown diamonds are the most common colour of gem-quality diamonds found everywhere on earth except Europe and Antarctica.
Where are some of the most diamonds?
Truly, diamonds are everywhere. Above ground, you can find the 20% of mined diamonds as gemstones in jewelery stores and being worn by humans. The remaining 80% of mined diamonds -- industrial diamonds -- are in use as enhancements to tools. As well, since diamonds are formed below the earth's surface, there may be many more unmined diamonds there.
What element makes diamonds valuable?
It isn't the element (carbon) that makes a diamond valuable: it's the availability of the diamond allotrope of carbon, and its limited occurrence on earth.
Are diamonds and silicons the most plentiful minerals on earth?
No, but the element silicon is a major component of the mineral quartz, which is one of the most abundant minerals on earth.
Do diamonds surround the earth's mantle?
No, diamonds don't surround the earth's mantle. Diamonds are formed within the earth's mantle, and are rare.
What is mined to get diamonds?
The earth is mined to get diamonds.
Are there diamonds inside the earth?
Diamonds are formed deep within the earth's mantle.
Is there an abundance of diamonds on the earth?
This is a question without an answer. What is clear, however, is that extracting diamonds from the earth is expensive and dangerous: diamonds are not as common as air or water, for example. It is not possible to determine how many diamonds there may be on earth, but it may be accurate to write that diamonds are not necessarily 'in abundance' on earth.
How diamonds affect the earth?
Diamonds are mined, so whatever effect mining may have on the earth is made when diamonds are mined.
How much diamonds are on earth?
Since the natural resource of diamonds has not been exhausted, it is not possible to estimate how many diamonds are on --and in -- the earth.
Where is diamond commonly found?
Diamonds are found everywhere on earth except in Europe and on the Antarctic continent.
