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Deep inside Uranus and Neptune, it may rain diamonds. Crushing pressure squeezes hydrocarbons like methane, stripping out carbon that hardens into diamonds and sinks toward the core. In 2017, an X-ray laser that flash-compressed hydrocarbons made diamonds, backing this old idea.
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