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Is It Raining Diamonds On Uranus
Berkeley - October 1， 1999 - If experiments at the University of California， Berkeley， are any indication， future explorers of our solar system may well find diamonds hailing down through the atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus.
These planets contain a high proportion of methane， which UC Berkeley researchers have now shown can turn into diamond at the high temperatures and pressures found inside these planets.
＂Once these diamonds form， they fall like raindrops or hailstones toward the center of the planet，＂ said Laura Robin Benedetti， a graduate student in physics at UC Berkeley.
The team， led by Benedetti and Raymond Jeanloz， professor of geology and geophysics， produced these conditions inside a diamond anvil cell， squeezing liquid methane to several hundred thousand times atmospheric pressure. When they focused a laser beam on the pressurized liquid， heating it to some 5，000 degrees Fahrenheit， diamond dust appeared.
They report their experimental findings in a paper in the Oct. 1 issue of Science.
The demonstration that methane can convert to diamond as well as other complex hydrocarbons in the interiors of giant planets like Neptune hint at a complex chemistry inside gaseous planets and even brown dwarf stars. Brown dwarfs are small， dim stars barely larger than the largest gas giant pl...