Lest We Forget: Why We Had A Financial Crisis. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. It is clear to anyone who has studied the financial crisis of 2008 that the private sectorâs drive for short-term profit was behind it.
Diamonds are made out of carbon â highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago, according to a recent study in the journal Nature, but they think the recipe follows something like this: 1. Bury carbon dioxide 100 miles into Earth. 2.
Technically, diamond is neither an element, a compound, or a  mixture. Diamond is made up of pure carbon atoms, so it is not a  mixture, and a compound by definition require â¦ s two or more  different elements.he carbon atoms form  layers and the graphite is soft and slippery; which makes it a nice  dry lubricant that is sometimes used in lock cylinders. It's also  opaque; unlike diamond.     Diamond is an element, an allotrope of carbon.