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RESEARCHERS PROBING HYDROGEN GET DIAMONDS
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| 7/5/06
| Staff
Posted on 07/07/2006 9:05:10 AM PDT by null and void
July 5, 2006 - Penn State University researchers investigating storage of hydrogen from anthracite coal found that while they were at it, they had created diamonds.
Angela D. Lueking, an assistant professor of energy and geoenvironmental engineering, said that as another fortunate byproduct they found that the process produced -- as well as stored -- hydrogen.
Hydrogen is a hot topic at the moment because of its possible use as an alternative to oil for energy. Lueking said her group was exploring whether anthracite would substitute for graphite in a storage process.
Like coal and graphite, diamonds are carbon, although the atoms are arranged differently to give the substance its appearance and extraordinary hardness. The process produced Bucky diamonds, Nanocrystalline diamonds surrounded by onion-like layers of graphite.
Lueking said the team is not sure when the diamonds formed.
The crystallization may be hydrogen-induced, it may be a result of the high temperatures and pressures within the mill, it may be a result of the processing we have done to purify the samples for transmission electron microscopy, or, it may be a combination of all of the above, she said.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diamondsareforever; energy; science
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Looking ito a glass diamond onion...
To: null and void
"DeBeers stock plummets!"
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:06:52 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Stop the Nifongery!)
To: null and void
We made diamonds, but we don't know how we did it. We need more research money............
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:08:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:10:07 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb6H-j51xE&search=Democrats)
To: null and void
This is a great site. Thanks for posting
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:13:45 AM PDT
by
Stand W
(Confusion to our enemies)
To: null and void
So, let's trade diamonds for oil.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:14:58 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Red Badger
"We made diamonds, but we don't know how we did it. We need more research money............"
That's how the things always happen. They stumble into something and figure it out only later.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:15:47 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: GSlob
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:18:59 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: GSlob
That's how the things always happen. They stumble into something and figure it out only later. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' - Isaac Asimov
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:19:34 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.)
To: null and void
RESEARCHERS PROBING HYDROGEN GET DIAMONDS
Boy, do I ever hate it when that happ-
Oh, wait.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:20:46 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
To: GSlob
"That's how the things always happen. They stumble into something and figure it out only later."
I wouldn't say "always," but I think most people would be shocked if they knew how many of our scientific advances are accidents -- some researcher does something, gets an unexpected result, say "What?!," and then figures it out...
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:21:16 AM PDT
by
piytar
To: null and void
Industrial diamonds. Good for grinders and knife sharpeners.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:23:42 AM PDT
by
patton
(LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
To: KarlInOhio
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Semiconductors and teflon are two such that spring to mind. Also the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:24:49 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: RightWhale
Industrial diamonds. Good for grinders and knife sharpeners. and heat sinks.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:28:42 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Charlie Mackenzie on haggis: I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.)
To: RightWhale
If everyone has one, who wants one?
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:33:05 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Old Professer
Never enough knife sharpeners. Coarse, medium, fine. Flat, round. In every room and in the car.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:34:50 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: null and void
You can use diamonds as heat sinks?
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:40:11 AM PDT
by
akorahil
(Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
To: null and void
Anyone know how big the diamond wafer is now, the guy that is growing the diamond monocrystal to eventually get it wide enough to slice off wafers to be used as a substrate for computer chips?
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:42:44 AM PDT
by
Geritol
(All I need is another hole in my head...)
To: Old Professer
Sell your de Beers stock . . .
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:42:56 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(!st Amendment: We can't trust ANYONE to control the public discourse.)
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