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Yale-Led Team Solves Half-Century Carbon-Crystal Mystery

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 22, 2012 @05:11AM from the fold-here-bend-there dept.

slew writes "Unlike its more famous carbon cousins: diamonds and fullerenes, you've probably never heard of M-Carbon, but this form of compressed graphite which is as hard as diamonds has baffled researcher for half a century. Over the past few years, many theoretical computations have suggested at least a dozen different crystal structures for this phase of carbon, but new experiments showed that only one crystal structure fits the data: M-carbon."

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M-Carbon? by Mal-2 · 2012-07-22 05:19 · Score: 5, Informative

Nice of TFS to not link to anything describing M-carbon.
Maybe this will help. Maybe it was "common knowledge", but I personally hadn't heard of the stuff till now.

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Which researcher? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-22 05:19 · Score: 5, Funny

this form of compressed graphite which is as hard as diamonds has baffled researcher
Though he has been baffled, his name has not been released.