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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industrial diamonds
there goes the DeBeer’s empire, a woman’s “best friend”, and another American cultural standard devalued
Exactly. It will be a 3-D printer add-on in five years.
Will 40 Rosie O’Donnells do as well?
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
When I give a wedding ring it will have a sapphire for a center stone not a diamond. It worked for Prince William.
Let me know when you can turn lead into gold with a nuclear reactor
Yeah, I smell clickbait when I see claims like that
That's one BIG ballerina!!!
Contact Obama & find out how he was able to turn gold into dung.
Star Sapphire or Star Rubies are lovely and unique.
Call me when they can make sheets of diamonds. That’d be better than transparent aluminum.🤔
“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
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