{"id":131466,"date":"2025-08-09T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131466\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:20:08","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-meteorite-diamond-in-laboratory-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131466\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists create meteorite diamond in laboratory breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers in China<\/a> say they have recreated the elusive \u201cmeteorite diamond\u201d in a laboratory \u2013 settling six decades of debate about the material\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first hexagonal-structured diamond was discovered in 1967 within the Canyon Diablo meteorite that hit Arizona 49,000 years ago. It was widely believed to have formed from graphite under the intense heat and pressure generated by its impact with Earth.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While all diamonds consist of carbon atoms, they are not limited to the better-known cubic structure. Research teams from around the world have been trying for years to recreate the hexagonally arranged variant with its distinct atomic stacking.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an article published on July 30 by the peer-reviewed journal Nature, the Chinese researchers detailed how they achieved high-purity hexagonal diamond crystals of 100 micrometres in size, providing definitive proof of the material\u2019s macroscopic existence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team combined expertise from the Centre for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research and the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While other teams around the world claimed to have synthesised the material, previous attempts typically yielded cubic diamonds or mixed-phase samples rather than pure hexagonal structures, according to the paper\u2019s corresponding author Luo Duan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers in China say they have recreated the elusive \u201cmeteorite diamond\u201d in a laboratory \u2013 settling six decades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5643,79878,79874,74,9191,917,79877,79875,1759,159,79873,14002,67,132,68,79876,79880,79879],"class_list":{"0":"post-131466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-canyon-diablo-meteorite","10":"tag-centre-for-high-pressure-science-and-technology-advanced-research","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","13":"tag-earth","14":"tag-luo-duan","15":"tag-mao-ho-kwang","16":"tag-nature","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-shaanxi","19":"tag-south-china-morning-post","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-xian-institute-of-optics-and-precision-mechanics","24":"tag-xinhua","25":"tag-yang-liuxiang"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114998308114519145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}