Of Diamonds and Pearls- Carbon and Silicon

I just realized how interesting diamonds and pearls are. Diamonds form due to immense pressure, with the carbon arranging in a particular way rather than being crushed entirely; pearls form from the irritation of an oyster to a grain of sand, and the biological response tied to that irritation, solidified over time, is the pearl.

So diamonds naturally take quite a while to form, from my understanding, whereas pearls would necessarily be less than the lifetime of an oyster. Additionally diamonds form in response/resistance to destruction (which would result in "grains" of carbon if resistance failed), whereas pearls grow from a single grain of sand. I am also wondering if it is of interest that carbon is the core building block of life here, whereas the silicon that sand is made of is theorized to be the potential core building block of foreign/alien life forms. It feels almost poetic that on one hand you have a carbon based treasure, formed for refusing to die, and on the other you have a silicon based treasure formed through resistance, growing from a single seed.

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