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Diamonds from the Pressure Cooker—Science or Science Fiction?
Author(s) -
Sachdev Hermann
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200460689
Subject(s) - cooker , diamond , high pressure , chemistry , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , history , engineering , engineering physics , archaeology , organic chemistry
Questions are raised about some of the arguments and methods described by Q. Chen and co‐workers in their reports on the synthesis of diamonds under mild conditions: Are the data provided sufficient proof of a new synthetic method? Where is the evidence of the proposed reaction intermediates? Is there another cause for the formation of diamond?