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°×С½ãÂÛ̳ is hosting a public exhibition about one of the most extraordinary substances on Earth - diamonds.

As well as being the hardest natural terrestrial substance, diamonds can be billions of years old or formed catastrophically in a millionth of a second, and born in the deaths of stars yet also grown in a laboratory.Ìý

'Dust to Diamonds' explores the precious mineral from a scientist's point of view, celebrating 60 years of diamond research within °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Earth Sciences and explaining why scientists often prefer 'flawed' and 'home-grown' diamonds to gem stones.

The free exhibition - a collaboration between °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Earth Sciences and °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Museums and Collections - will be on public display in the North Cloisters of the Wilkins Building, Gower Street, until November 12.

The exhibition's external partners include the Gemological Institute of America, the Diamond Trading Company, and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College.

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°×С½ãÂÛ̳ context

°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Earth Sciences is one of the oldest and largest centres for earth and planetary sciences in the UK. The department's research spans a diverse range of activities including: crustal processes, Earth and planetary evolution, mineral physics, palaeobiology and palaeoclimatology, polar observation and modelling, natural hazards, environmental geochemistry and sedimentology.

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