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Crystalline Forms of Carbon: A Possible Hexagonal Polymorph of Diamond

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ERGUN, S., ALEXANDER, L. Crystalline Forms of Carbon: A Possible Hexagonal Polymorph of Diamond. Nature 195, 765–767 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195765a0

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