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Question
What is diamond? Of what substance is diamond made?
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Solution
Diamond, which is a colourless and transparent substance, is an allotrope of carbon. It is the hardest natural substance known. Diamonds are purely made of carbon and the symbol is C. When we burn diamond in oxygen, only carbon dioxide is evolved showing that diamond is made up of carbon.
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