Talk:Diamond Mimicry/@comment-186.206.96.247-20120529222255/@comment-5553107-20120707184337

First of all, according to Mo's scale of mineral hardness, diamond ranks at a 10 on a purely ordinal scale and is widely known as the hardest mineral. Second, diamonds burn in pure oxygen at about 1320 degrees Fahrenheit. In air (which is about 20% oxygen), the temperature raises to around 1560 degrees Fahrenheit. 3rd, please consider that the condition for diamond is VERY HIGH pressure while temperature is optional but very much encouraged to accelerate the process. Diamond is an allotrope of carbon arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice so it has molecular stability and a snooty rich people scent. In actuallity, time manipulation would be diamonds weaknesses since it is thermodynamically unstable and over a period of thousands, perhaps millions, of years turning into graphite.