Popular Myths That Have Been Debunked by Actual Science

If you Crush Coal you Can Create a Diamond

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They say that if one crushes a piece of coal, they can create a diamond. But coal comes from decaying plants in Earth’s crust while diamonds come from Earth’s mantle, and are made up of meteorites and asteroids that have crashed on Earth. Most diamonds surface only when volcanoes erupt.

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