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- The Discovery
of Fullerenes
- Suppose we could find a material, hundreds of times
stronger than steel that could also be used to make
electronic circuits much smaller than today's silicon-based
computer chips? Bernd Eggen was fortunate to be a
member of one of the teams of scientists that discovered
it - quite by accident.
- The Making of Oil
- Where does oil come from and how do we get it? Follow
the process from the Birth of an Oil Reservoir to
Tapping the Oil Reservoir in this overview of the
CD-ROM by the same name.
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These links go outside the SEED web site. When you
click on one it will open in a new browser window.
Close that window when you are done (don't use the
Back button) and you will be looking at this page
again.
- The
Nature of Diamonds
- A web site all about diamonds, based on an exhibit
at The American Museum of Natural History
- Diamonds
in Conflict
- from the Global Policy Forum provides information
and opinions about conflict diamonds in Africa
- De
Beers
- The worlds largest diamond company
- Gemological
Institute of America
- is an excellent source of information about diamonds
and other gemstones
- Icehotel
- The ice palace in the James Bond movie is based
on this hotel, which is rebuilt each winter in Lapland.
- Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics Press Release…
- Read about this newly discovered cosmic diamond
is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years
from
the Earth
in the constellation Centaurus.
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