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Published online 17 June 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990617-10
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Liquid diamond and carbon spaghetti
What happens if you melt diamond? No-one knows, because no one has been able to do it. Despite carbon’s status as the ‘element of life’, its liquid state is still a mystery.
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