It may actually rain diamonds inside Neptune and Uranus

Lab experiments that recreate the crushing pressure and heat deep inside ice giants have split methane into carbon and hydrogen, with the carbon crystallising into diamond. Scientists think those diamonds then sink slowly through the planets' interiors, essentially raining down toward the core.

— Wikipedia, Diamond rain

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