http://www.sciensational.com/chemistry.html /Graphite can be transformed into diamond by applying a temperature of 3000C and pressure of 100,000 atm.

/The element Californium is often called the most expensive substance in the wor ld (as much as $68 million for one gram.) /Aluminium is the most common metal in the Earth's crust (8 percent of its weigh t.) /Unlike any other element, helium does not solidify. /Hot water freezes faster than cold water (the Mpemba effect.) /Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils of plankton (a tiny sea creature.) /A bucket full of water contains more atoms than there are bucketfuls of water i n the Atlantic Ocean. \ /A rubber tire is actually one single giant molecule. /Gallium is a metal which melts on palm of the hand, due to its low melting poin t (29.76 C). /Twenty percent of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon forest.