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Q1. Why did James Bond use wine to test for the authencity
of his diamond?
[Answer]
Q2. How much pressure must Superman apply, at room temperature,
to change graphite or fullerenes into diamond crystals?
[Answer]
Q3. Why is DeBeer's statement "A diamond is forever"
not quite accurate?
[Answer]
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?
[Answer]
Q7. Why does a real diamond feel cooler than its "fake"
cubic zirconia counterpart?
[Answer]
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?
[Answer]
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?
[Answer]
Q13. Why does diamond behave chemically different from the
graphite or the fullerenes?
[Answer]
Q14. What is carbon?
[Answer]
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