• Question: If you heated up a diomand to 1000oC, would it explode like a grenade

    Asked by FishFingers123 to William, Roberto, Karen, Jasmine, Chinna on 9 Nov 2018.
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      William answered on 9 Nov 2018:


      The formation of diamonds needs very high temperatures and pressures. These conditions occur in limited zones of Earth’s mantle about 150 kilometers below the surface, where temperatures are at least 1050 degrees Celsius. Its because of this that i don’t think it would explode đŸ™‚

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