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Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process (www.livescience.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/upliftingnews

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Similar conditions are employed in the method currently used to synthesize 99% of all artificially created diamonds. Called high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) growth, this method uses these extreme settings to coax carbon dissolved in liquid metals, like iron, to convert it to diamond around a small seed, or starter diamond.

Cool. I don't know how expensive this process is right now, but it seems cheaper to do, at least on mass production.

Edit: I wonder if they could make a tether out of this thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

“Bender, be careful! Thats the ship’s diamond filament tether. It’s unbreakable!”

“Then why do I have to be careful?”

“It belonged to my grandmother.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A tether for what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For everything of course, from space exploration to clothing

Material science.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For a tether, I feel like you'd want something with a high tensile strength, like Kevlar or Zylon. Diamonds are very hard, but also brittle.