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Who was the author of the first novel-series?

The first serial novel in the history of literature, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was published in 1837. This sentimentally ironic epic was created by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Where do diamonds come from?

From volcanoes. All diamonds are formed underground, under the influence of ultra-high temperatures and pressure, and volcanic eruptions carry them to the surface.

The formation of diamonds occurs at a depth of 160 to 480 km. Most diamonds are found in volcanic rock called kimberlite and are mined in areas where volcanic activity is common. All other, random, diamonds are simply washed out of kimberlite pipes.

Today, there are twenty countries in the world where diamonds are mined. South Africa ranks fifth in terms of production - after Australia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana and Russia.

Diamonds are made up of pure carbon. Just like graphite, a substance from which pencil leads are made, but in which the carbon atoms are arranged differently. Diamond is one of the hardest substances found in nature: ten points on the Mohs hardness scale graphite, on the contrary, is one of the softest substances with an indicator of only one and a half points, that is, slightly harder than the softest substance on the same scale - talc .

The largest diamond known to mankind is 4000 km across and weighs ten billion trillion trillion carats. Discovered just above Australia (XNUMX light-years away), the diamond sits inside the star Lucy in the constellation of the Centaur.

Astronomers have named this huge star "Lucy" after the Beatles classic "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", but its "technical" name is "white dwarf BP 37093". The song itself was named after a drawing by John Lennon's son Julian of his four-year-old girlfriend Lucy Richardson.

Once upon a time, diamonds were the hardest material known to mankind. However, in August 2005, German scientists managed to get an even harder thing in the laboratory. Called ACNR, the new material consists of carbon "nanorods" bonded together and is made by compressing and heating superstrong carbon molecules to a temperature of 2226°C.

Each of these molecules is made up of sixty atoms intertwined in pentagonal and hexagonal geometries, said to resemble tiny soccer balls. ACNR is a material so hard that even a diamond can be easily scratched.

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