Q1. Why did James Bond use wine to test for the authencity of his diamond?

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Q2. How much pressure must Superman apply, at room temperature, to change graphite or fullerenes into diamond crystals?

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Q3. Why is DeBeer's statement "A diamond is forever" not quite accurate?

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Q4. How much surface area does one gram of activated charcoal possess?

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Q5. Are we really using lead in our pencils?

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Q6. What is the market price for the various forms of carbon?

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Q7. Why does a real diamond feel cooler than its "fake" cubic zirconia counterpart?

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Q8. What was the filament in the earliest electric light bulbs made from?

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Q9. What is the roundest molecule in nature?

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Q10. Why does graphite conduct electricity better than diamond?

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Q11. What form of carbon is one of the hardest materials on earth?

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Q12. Why do the carbon forms look so different?

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Q13. Why does diamond behave chemically different from the graphite or the fullerenes?

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Q14. What is carbon?

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