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Nitrogen 'Diamond' Created

Posted by michael on from the squish dept.

Sensible Clod writes "Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry have synthesized a new form of nitrogen, with a stucture like that of diamond. This was accomplished by means of a crushing force (>110 GPa) at extremely high temperature (2000 K), of course. The result, according to PhysOrg, is a very hard crystal with a lot of energy stored in it, which leads to the possibility of using it as a non-polluting fuel or high-explosive."

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  1. Fuel? Baah. by arkham6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A fuel? How much less energy do you get out from it than was put into it? It seems like a very difficult way of wasting energy.