{"id":243697,"date":"2026-09-05T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-finally-solve-a-20-year-mystery-about-diamond-melting"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:08:07","slug":"scientists-finally-solve-a-20-year-mystery-about-diamond-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-finally-solve-a-20-year-mystery-about-diamond-melting","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Finally Solve a 20-Year Mystery About Diamond Melting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-finally-solve-a-20-year-mystery-about-diamond-melting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct measurements of diamond melting under extreme pressure resolved a long-standing theory-experiment mismatch and could improve both fusion research and planetary models.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diamond is not only a gemstone. This exceptionally hard form of carbon is also used in the tiny capsules that surround fuel in inertial confinement fusion experiments, and researchers think carbon may form diamonds that fall through the interiors of ice giants such as Neptune and Uranus.<\/p>\n<p>Both environments expose diamond to immense pressure, yet experiments and computer simulations have long produced conflicting descriptions of what happens to the material under such extreme conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct measurements of diamond melting under extreme pressure resolved a long-standing theory-experiment mismatch and could improve both fusion research and planetary models. Diamond is not only a gemstone. This exceptionally hard form of carbon is also used in the tiny capsules that surround fuel in inertial confinement fusion experiments, and researchers think carbon may form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}