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Re: [Orchid] Diamond's Structural Secrets Revealed  
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From: Wayne Emery
Date: Sun Jan 06 04:35:24 2008
 
     
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Hi Terrie,

    Methinks Mr. Sunada would benefit from a course in crystallography. 

    The type of symmetry and ordered packing displayed by diamond is not
    peculiar to diamond at all, and is shared by a few other minerals.
    To be fair, Mr. Sunada appears to be a mathematician, not a
    mineralogist or crystallographer, but..... 

>     Diamond also has a property similar to circles and spheres, which
>     look the same no matter which way you rotate them. Similarly, a
>     diamond crystal looks the same when viewed from the direction of
>     any edge

    So does Galena or table salt, for that matter, and many others.
    Although, if you read the above statement carefully and think about
    it, it is nearly nonsense. Who edits these articles? 

Wayne
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