To: Red Badger
anvils<\i>??? All the blacksmiths will be happy.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Anvil is the canonical term for what we think of as a vice or pressure cell. The first diamonds were synthesized in a tetrahedral anvil (pressure cell) and simultaneously heated to high temperature to simulate the hydrostatic pressure that exists in the earth's mantle.
10 posted on
10/13/2011 11:17:37 AM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
anvils??? All the blacksmiths will be happy. So will the cartoon writers.
21 posted on
10/13/2011 11:36:37 AM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
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