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What's On The Edge Of A Diamond?

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-27 17:08 ID:gDCJX9uH

I realise it's a crystal lattice, but the diagrams merely show the edges going on forever, how diamonds have fixed shapes, what happens at edges? Surely there aren't just carbon bonds floating around.

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-28 5:17 ID:l6bxUVe4

Some info mentioned here: http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/PathDiamMolMfg.htm
(Slide 11, 12, 26 and 27 most relevant.)

The illustrations seem to suggest a outer layer of hydrogen atoms, but 'dehydrogenated' diamond is also mentioned, where again we must assume either free electrons (unstable) or a different structure that connects the carbon at the surface.

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