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Scientists produce rare diamonds in minutes at room temperature
News Atlas ^ | 18 Nov 2020 | Nick Lavars

Posted on 11/19/2020 3:31:33 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

While traditional diamonds are formed over billions of years deep in the Earth where extreme pressures and temperatures provide just the right conditions to crystalize carbon, scientists are working on more expedient ways of forging the precious stones. An international team of researchers has succeeded in whittling this process down to mere minutes, demonstrating a new technique where they not only form quickly, but do so at room temperature.

The team applied pressure equal to 640 African elephants on the tip of a ballet shoe, doing so in a way that caused an unexpected reaction among the the carbon atoms in the device.

The team hopes the technique can enable them to produce meaningful quantities of these artificial diamonds, particularly Lonsdaleite, which is predicted to be 58 percent harder than regular diamonds.

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To: DUMBGRUNT

industrial diamonds


21 posted on 11/19/2020 4:20:27 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

there goes the DeBeer’s empire, a woman’s “best friend”, and another American cultural standard devalued


22 posted on 11/19/2020 4:22:38 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Arcadian Empire
"Gumball machine diamonds coming soon."

Exactly. It will be a 3-D printer add-on in five years.

23 posted on 11/19/2020 4:22:55 PM PST by StAnDeliver (I've got your Third Rail of Politics right here. )
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To: TexasGator

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-lead-can-be-turned-into-gold/

https://www.thoughtco.com/turning-lead-into-gold-602104#:~:text=It%27s%20been%20reported%20that%20Glenn%20Seaborg%2C%201951%20Nobel,lead%20shielding%20of%20an%20experimental%20reactor%20into%20gold.


24 posted on 11/19/2020 4:25:15 PM PST by algore
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To: Hot Tabasco

Will 40 Rosie O’Donnells do as well?


25 posted on 11/19/2020 4:25:31 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: AlmaKing

Fun idea, but better off going to Crater of Diamonds state park in Arkansas, less likely to be run over by street racers.
I had a great time met many nice and helpful miners.

And the ones I found were decidedly larger than his finds.
And occasionally they find large ones!

Visitor finds 4.49-carat diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park
http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_122012.shtml


26 posted on 11/19/2020 4:30:29 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

When I give a wedding ring it will have a sapphire for a center stone not a diamond. It worked for Prince William.


27 posted on 11/19/2020 4:33:08 PM PST by Grey182 (Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: algore

Let me know when you can turn lead into gold with a nuclear reactor


28 posted on 11/19/2020 4:42:27 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: algore
LEAD
LOAD
GOAD
GOLD!
29 posted on 11/19/2020 4:56:22 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
640 African elephants on the tip of a ballet shoe, Prove it? Who counted them?????? Dominion Software
30 posted on 11/19/2020 4:59:53 PM PST by Frohickey
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To: trublu

Yeah, I smell clickbait when I see claims like that


31 posted on 11/19/2020 5:44:14 PM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: DUMBGRUNT
The team applied pressure equal to 640 African elephants on the tip of a ballet shoe

That's one BIG ballerina!!!

32 posted on 11/19/2020 6:14:49 PM PST by DannyTN (<P><a href="https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3902132/posts">)
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To: algore

Contact Obama & find out how he was able to turn gold into dung.


33 posted on 11/19/2020 8:34:25 PM PST by oldtech
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To: Grey182

Star Sapphire or Star Rubies are lovely and unique.


34 posted on 11/19/2020 8:38:15 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Call me when they can make sheets of diamonds. That’d be better than transparent aluminum.🤔


35 posted on 11/19/2020 8:44:59 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: BiteYourSelf

“Call me when they can make sheets of diamonds.”

Kind of depends on your definition of sheets???
https://www.surfacetechnology.com/Composite-Diamond-Coating.aspx

Diamond chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has been around for some time.

Same for transparent aluminum IIRC this was on FR years back???
https://phys.org/news/2009-07-transparent-aluminium-state.html


36 posted on 11/20/2020 8:04:52 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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