Charcoal and Diamonds

You would not believe it but charcoal and diamonds are closely related:

- both charcoal and diamond are made up of the element Carbon

- charcoal is the amorphous form of carbon while diamond is its crystalline form

- charcoal can be broken by normal force but diamond is the hardest known mineral; diamond is number 10 in Moh’s hardness scale

- charcoal is black in color but diamonds can be colorless or transparent and colors can range from yellow to brown to black

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