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How Can a Star Turn into a Diamond?

šŸ’” The Answer

  • White dwarf stars have cores of crystallized carbon and oxygen, similar to diamonds.
  • As a star like our Sun exhausts its fuel, it becomes a white dwarf over billions of years.
  • The immense pressure inside compresses carbon atoms into a lattice structure, forming diamond.
  • Earth's diamonds are tiny compared to these cosmic diamonds, which can be thousands of kilometers wide.

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