Pennsylvania Eastern Region Abstract Competition. The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (Formerly Scranton Temple Residency Program) in Scranton, PA will host the ACP PA Eastern Regional Meeting on October 6, 2012 at The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) in Scranton. The competition is open to all residents in the Pennsylvania Eastern Region.
Diamonds are formed as an allotrope of the element carbon, at depths greater than 90 miles. The pressure and heat at this depth is critical to the formation of the diamonds thâ¦at are mined at the surface today. At crustal pressures, the stable form of carbon is the allotrope graphite.
Technically, a diamond is an allotrope, or a form, of the element carbon (a diamond is actually carbon in its most concentrated form). Within a diamond, the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. This arrangement of carbon atoms essentially means that the diamond expands outward at the same rate in all directions during its initial growth. Because of its structure, which is extremely rigid, a diamond can be contaminated by very few impurities, such as the elements boron or nitrogen. Combined with its tendency to be transparent, this results in the colorless, clear appearance of most diamonds.