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The graphitization of diamond and the nature of cliftonite. (With Plate XXVI)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. J. Grenville-Wells
H. J. Grenville-Wells*
Affiliation:
University College, London
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Summary

It has long been known that if a diamond is heated in pure oxygen, or even in air, to a temperature of about 700° C. or higher (depending on the initial quality of the diamond), it will be wholly or partially oxidized to CO or CO2, but that if the diamond is heated in the absence of oxygen—preferably in vacuo—to a temperature of about 1500° C. or higher (again depending on the initial quality of the diamond), it will be wholly or partially converted to graphite. For complete conversion the graphite is always poly crystalline. The partial conversion of diamond to graphite is, however, of considerable interest, because when graphite forms on a single crystal of diamond it exhibits a strong preferred orientation.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 216 , March 1952 , pp. 803 - 816
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1952

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