In 1967, a hexagonal form of diamond, later named lonsdaleite, was identified for the first time inside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the asteroid that created the Barringer Crater in ...

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Conceptual illustration of the Stacked Converging Shocks (SCS) framework. Each successive shock stage compresses the target further in a self-similar manner, producing a geometrically ordered sequence ...