Carbonado: Natural Polycrystalline Diamond

Lucien F. Trueb, E. Christiaan de Wys

Science · 1969 · 44 citations · 7 references

Concepts

Abstract

Carbonados are porous aggregates of mostly xenomorphic diamond crystallites ranging in diameter from a fraction of a micron to over 20 microns. Crystalline inclusions (up to 3 percent) occur in the pores of the crystallites and consist mainly of orthoclase and small amounts of other igneous, metamorphic, and secondary minerals.

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