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To: Pharmboy

Small crystals equal rapid cooling, large crystals equal slow cooling.

Sience class wasn’t a total waste.


5 posted on 01/02/2009 9:08:30 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

Actually, the microscopic diamonds are a result of a meteor impact, not due to cooling. Impact-type microdiamonds can be used as one indicator of impact craters.


10 posted on 01/02/2009 9:27:35 AM PST by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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