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| Make your Own DIAMONDS !! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the 1796's it was discovered that diamonds were made of carbon. But it wasn't untill the 1950's that scientists first figured out how to turn regular carbon into diamonds, without having to wait centuries. The first to discover how to create the real/fake diamonds was a Swedish scientist named Blatazar von Platen in 1953, but his success was never publicized. So credit for making the first real/fake diamond goes to a team run by General Electric. On the team was: Francis Bundy, Tracy Hall, Herbert Strong, and Robert Wentorf. Other companies such as De Beers, who just about controls the diamond market, soon were producing their own real/fake diamonds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The process scientist use to make diamonds is both simple and complicated. All you need is extremely high pressure, about 55,000 atmospheric pressure and extreme heat, 1400 degrees C. The chart to the left shows the way scientist make diamonds. |
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| I found on a web site called http://www.zyra.org.uk/make-dmd.htm these direction for: How to make diamond: 1. melt down some iron 2. dissolve some ordinary carbon in it 3. drop the molten iron with carbon in water 4. dissolve the iron in acid It's true, this really does make diamonds, but they are very small and not of very high quality. |
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| An interesting fact. Because the atoms are so packed in, in a diamond light travels only 80,000 mph, through air it travels at 186, 000 mph, the diamonds really slwo it down. They do this because as the light goes in the diamond it bounces back and forth inside it before it can find a good place to exit. While it is bouncing around it slows down. So the light that exits the diamond has slowed down to less than half of what it was going when it entered the diamon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Picture above is Diamond Thin Film, click it to learn more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Here are some liks that I used that are great sites for information on diamonds. Please note that all of the pictures on this web site were taken from from the site they are linked to. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American Museum of Natural History Schlumberger, Seed Science Center PBS: NOVA Molecular Expressions |
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