<p class="MsoNormal">4.5 billion years ago Scientists expect that the diamond formed
after a collision between a dwarf planet and a large asteroid. Researchers from
Australia and the United Kingdom confirmed that according to their recent study,
A mysterious diamond from an ancient dwarf planet has found its way to the earth’s
surface. This all things begin when Andy&nbsp;
Tomkins, geologist, and professor at Australia’s Monash University, was
doing fieldwork categorizing meteors, CNN reported this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In a space rock in Africa’s northwest, he detected a
peculiar “bent” diamond. According to the study, what was found in the meteorite
was a rare hexagonal stone which is known as lonsdaleite. And which was formed from
a supercritical fluid at high temperatures and moderate pressures. “Later Lonsdaleite
was partially replaced by a diamond as the environment cooled and the pressure
decreased” an article published by RMIT university Tomkin said.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="/media/django-summernote/2022-10-21/2c529bf9-0d32-4e60-ac06-d1b5cb924fca.png" style="width: 473.996px;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;Researchers expect the
diamond to have formed after the collision happens between the dwarf planet and
a large asteroid about 4.5 billion years ago. There’s strong evidence that
there’s a newly discovered formation process for the lonsdaleite and regular
diamond, which is like a supercritical chemical vapor deposition process that
has taken place in these space rocks, probably in the dwarf planet shortly
after a catastrophic collision,” RMIT professor Dougal McCulloch said.</p><p class="MsoNormal">It has been also discovered that lonsdaleite may be tougher
than typical diamonds, which have a cubic structure. Its peculiar creation may
have significant technological applications….according to academics. “Nature has provided us with a process to try and replicate
in industry," Professor Tomkins said. "We think that lonsdaleite
could be used to make tiny, ultra-hard machine parts if we can develop an
industrial process that promotes the replacement of pre-shaped graphite parts
by lonsdaleite.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>