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Diamonds from outer space

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Stable fluorescence is observed in nanodiamonds of molecular dimensions extracted from a meteorite.

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Figure 1: Nanodiamond from out of this world.

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  1. Christoph Becher is at the Universität des Saarlandes, Fachrichtung 7.2 (Experimentalphysik), Campus E2.6, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany,

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Becher, C. Diamonds from outer space. Nature Nanotech 9, 16–17 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.287

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