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    In crystallography, the diamond cubic crystal structure is a repeating pattern of 8 atoms that certain materials may adopt as they solidify. While the...
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    sometimes erroneously called cubic zirconium. Because of its low cost, durability, and close visual likeness to diamond, synthetic cubic zirconia has remained...
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    aluminium, copper, gold and silver. Another important cubic crystal structure is the diamond cubic structure, which can appear in carbon, silicon, germanium...
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    Diamond is the allotrope of carbon in which the carbon atoms are arranged in the specific type of cubic lattice called diamond cubic. It is a crystal that...
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    Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond as a form of carbon is tasteless...
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    diamond to its measured parameters: for example, a cubic zirconia (SG 5.6–6) will be 1.7 times the expected weight of an equivalently sized diamond....
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  • Face-centered cubic (FCC): 0.74 (also called cubic close-packed, CCP) Body-centered cubic (BCC): 0.68 Simple cubic: 0.52 Diamond cubic: 0.34 The majority...
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    greater control. Elemental semiconductors (silicon, germanium, and diamond) are diamond cubic, a space group for which octahedral cleavage is observed. This...
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    intrinsic compounds and extrinsic compounds. The intrinsic group includes diamond, cubic boron nitride (c-BN), carbon nitrides, and ternary compounds such as...
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    diamond, except another diamond. In diamond form, carbon is one of the costliest elements. The crystal structure of diamond is a face-centered cubic lattice...
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    (eight-sided bipyramid), cubic, and triangular (most commonly macles). A raw diamond or rough diamond can also be a type of diamond that is not fully developed...
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    needed] stabilized cubic structured zirconia, cubic zirconia, is synthesized in various colours for use as a gemstone and a diamond simulant. Zirconia...
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    Carbon (section Diamond)
    3-dimensional network of puckered six-membered rings of atoms. Diamond has the same cubic structure as silicon and germanium, and because of the strength...
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    cubical cells to be meshed can also be sliced into 5 tetrahedra, using a (diamond cubic) lattice as a basis. Cubes are mated on each side with another that...
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    metal; at low temperatures it is less dense grey α-tin, which has the diamond cubic structure. Metallic tin does not easily oxidize in air and water. The...
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    13.2 °C, tin exists in the gray form, which has a diamond cubic crystal structure, similar to diamond, silicon or germanium. Gray tin has no metallic properties...
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    Silicon (category Chemical elements with diamond cubic structure)
    giant covalent structure at standard conditions, specifically in a diamond cubic crystal lattice (space group 227). It thus has a high melting point...
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  • three-dimensional space Cubic zirconia, in geology, a mineral that is widely synthesized for use as a diamond simulacra CUBIC, a histology method Cubic IDE, a modular...
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  • Element Six is a company specialised in providing synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride and other superhard materials for industrial use. Part of the...
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    gravity of 3.2–3.3 . Its hardness is theoretically superior to that of cubic diamond (up to 58% more), according to computational simulations, but natural...
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    cosmetic products. The cubic (zincblende aka sphalerite structure) variety analogous to diamond is called c-BN; it is softer than diamond, but its thermal and...
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    from crystal having a regular crystal structure, with silicon having a diamond cubic structure with a lattice spacing of 5.430710 Å (0.5430710 nm). When...
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    Lead (category Chemical elements with face-centered cubic structure)
    allotropes with the tetrahedrally coordinated and covalently bonded diamond cubic structure. The energy levels of their outer s- and p-orbitals are close...
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    direction (along the longest diagonal of the cubic diamond lattice). Nanocrystalline diamond produced through CVD diamond growth can have a hardness ranging from...
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    Germanium (category Chemical elements with diamond cubic structure)
    α-germanium, which has a metallic luster and a diamond cubic crystal structure, the same structure as silicon and diamond. In this form, germanium has a threshold...
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  • for Angolan diamond production. Probable reserves are 1.3 million cubic meters of ore at an ore grade of 21.6 carats (4.32 g) per 100 cubic meters (43...
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    metals can be grown on a face-centered cubic (fcc) or diamond cubic. The epitaxial growth of austenite on the diamond (100) face is feasible because of the...
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  • molecule. These species are of interest as molecular approximations of the diamond cubic framework, terminated with C−H bonds. Examples include: Adamantane (C10H16)...
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    carbon in diamond. Cubic boron nitride, among other applications, is used as an abrasive, as its hardness is comparable with that of diamond. Hexagonal...
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    Silicon in a diamond cubic crystal structure...
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