eli5 since diamonds are compressed carbon is it combustible? I don’t think so but why?

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eli5 since diamonds are compressed carbon is it combustible? I don’t think so but why?

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The short answer is: Your intuition that diamonds, being carbon, should burn is correct. In practice it takes a very hot flame and supplemental oxygen, but then they burn away to nothing.

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