Huge Pressures Melt Diamonds On Planet Neptune
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 09:29
in Physics & Chemistry
The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined 10 times more accurately than ever before. It may not immediately obvious why accelerating a projectile about the size of a stick of gum to 25 times the speed of a rifle bullet and smashing it into a target in central New Mexico would say anything about nuclear fusion or the state of diamonds on Neptune.