He plans to cut a series of concentric circles into the surface of a piece of diamond, a material with one of the highest refractive indices known.

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While there's no timeline for the release of the song or new material, Diamond has the song on the fast track.

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Belonging to a class of worlds known as diamond planets, 55 Cancri e is thought to be rich in the element carbon, which can exist in a variety of structural forms such as graphite (the material used as pencil lead), graphene, or diamond.

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Less flashy than a diamond, more mysterious than an opal, the lustrous natural pearl has an aesthetic and material value that reflects its rareness.

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According to a new computer model, liquid methane in contact with a partially hydrogen-terminated diamond surface at extremely high pressures and temperatures spontaneously forms longer hydrocarbons, and hence the material of crude oil could be formed deep in the earth.

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