formula | C

density | 3.515 g/cm^3 transparency | transparent | subtransparent | translucent luster | adamantine | greasy Mohs hardness | 10 tenacity | brittle streak | colorless magnetism | nonmagnetic color | colorless | white | gray | black | blue fracture | conchoidal molar mass | 12.01 g/mol (grams per mole)

Strunz ID | I/B.02-40 Dana ID | 1.3.6.1

crystal system | cubic crystal class | 4/m-32/m unit cell volume | 45.38 Å^3 (cubic ångströms) d-spacing | 2.06 Å (ångströms) | 1.261 Å (ångströms) | 1.075 Å (ångströms) intensity | 100% | 25% | 16% molecules per unit cell | 8 molecules per cell refractive indices | 2.418 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 dispersion | strong unit cell lengths | 3.567 Å (ångströms) | 3.567 Å (ångströms) | 3.567 Å (ångströms) unit cell angles | 90° (degrees) | 90° (degrees) | 90° (degrees)

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond as a form of carbon is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of electricity, and insoluble in water. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon ...