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Published online 17 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010517-9
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Diamond coating costs cut
Making diamond need not be as hard as chemists thought.
A revolutionary way to create artificial diamond cheaply and easily could lead to far wider industrial use of diamond coating1.
The new process doesn’t produce gem-quality stones -- the diamond crystals are no bigger than five nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) across.
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