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Diamonds from Outer Space: Geologists Discover Origin of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds

01-10-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

The National Science Foundation has issued this news release about the discovery of the origin of Earth's so-called black diamonds. This research was performed at beamline U2B at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), where scientists used infrared light to analyze the diamonds' elemental makeup.

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