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THE diamond offers a variety of fascinating problems to the research worker interested in the correlation of physical properties with crystal structure, and the well-known variations of crystalline habit, colour, fluorescence, and so forth, are responsible for a bulky scientific literature. Its scientific interest and its beauty as a gem inspired many abortive attempts at synthesis, and probably one successful solution of the problem1. It is not surprising that the diamond was among the very first crystals examined by X-ray methods, and the essential simplicity of the structure is in striking contrast with the complexity revealed by a detailed examination of the crystalline form and properties.
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TAYLOR, W. STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF DIAMOND. Nature 159, 729–731 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159729a0
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