To be honest at first we really wasn’t sure what the hell it was but I was so drawn to it so after lots of research we found we actually had uncovered a lonsdaleite!
We also researched the best way to test that it is actually genuine, is to wrap it in plastic and set the plastic alight if it doesn’t burn you have a genuine lonsdaleite so of course we had to test that theory too, see our next video to watch us test the theory and see if we have a genuine lonsdaleite or not!
Here’s some additional info:
Lonsdaleite (named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale), also called hexagonal diamond in reference to the crystal structure, is an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice, as opposed to the cubical lattice of conventional diamond. It is found in nature in meteorite debris; when meteors containing graphite strike the Earth, the great heat and stress of the impact transforms the graphite into diamond, but retains graphite's hexagonal crystal lattice. Lonsdaleite was first identified in 1967 from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, where it occurs as microscopic crystals associated with ordinary diamond.
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