Diamonds Low-poly 3D model

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Diamond is a highly rigid form of carbon with a crystalline structure known as diamond cubic. As the most thermally conductive and hardest natural substance, it is widely employed in industrial cutting and polishing tools. The inflexible arrangement of its atoms allows only two impurities - boron and nitrogen - to contaminate it, altering the diamonds' color from blue (boron) to yellow (nitrogen). Most natural diamonds, aged between 1 billion to 3.5 billion years, were formed 150-250 kilometers beneath Earth's mantle before being carried to surface through volcanic eruptions. Synthetic and imitation diamonds can be created via high pressure and temperature or chemical vapor deposition methods, with optical techniques and thermal conductivity measurements employed for identification.