What makes diamonds blue? Boron from oceanic crustal remnants in Earth's lower mantle

Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 12:00 in Earth & Climate

Blue diamonds—like the world-famous Hope Diamond at the National Museum of Natural History—formed up to four times deeper in the Earth's mantle than most other diamonds, according to new work published on the cover of Nature.

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