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Diamonds under pressure impersonate exoplanet cores

Science News, July 2014

Researchers have squeezed diamonds to a record-setting pressure — 14 times as high as that inside Earth’s core. The compressed diamond’s properties could reveal the extreme conditions deep inside supersized distant planets, the team reports in the July 17 Nature.

A version of this article appears in the August 9, 2014 issue of Science News. Adapted for Science News for Students.

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