Tuesday, September 11, 2007

γ-aminobutyric acid, or GABA.

The first ever diamond in Japan found! It has been long believed that the country did not produce diamonds because the geological condition is not for the gem.

The stone found is as tiny as a hundredth of one millimeter in diameter. It is included in an igneous rock sampled from the western Japan. Some light spectroscopic method has detected it.

The photo is of a mosquito. Japanese often associate mosquitoes with diamonds. Hence, the pic is highly relevant here.

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