Author: Alexandra Johnson
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Carbon under pressure: The thermodynamics behind diamonds vs graphite
Thermodynamics is known as the study of energy, and how available energy affects reactions and the transformation of matter (Mukherjee 2011). In the context of mineralogy, thermodynamics can tell us which minerals will form under different environmental conditions (Perkins 2022). One example of this in nature is the formation of diamonds and graphite, both of…