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A new method of etching diamond is described which produces rapid etching and etch patterns which are decidedly better and more easily interpreted than those produced by the conventional method. It is also shown that the new method produces etch patterns having the same morphology as that of trigons observed on natural (111) faces and quadrons on (100) natural faces of diamond.