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How Can a Star Turn into a Diamond?
š” 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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