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1y ago

Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes

charmingscience.com

Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes

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I'd like one lab diamond pocket knife pls.
- I can't wait for the glorious future - one day this won't be unrealistic anymore.
- Not that easily I think.
How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring
In the 1930s, few Americans proposed with the precious stone. Then everything changed. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/
I want diamond optics for my camera, unless that is stupid for the physics of optics.
- Pretty sure the lines of cleavage would make it pretty difficult to get a useful lense shape made out of the stuff.
- Diamond doesn’t have the best absorption spectrum compared to high quality optical glass. You’d end up losing more light.
In the future (probably in the next couple years) after a company I with with release their product, I've learned of the stupidest use for diamonds you've never heard of, I'll drop it here in whatever announcement package they release.
- You're not too far off with the essence of a couple of them, I'll give you props for coming up with some very silly ideas,
- Shotgun pellets?
  
  Much more frivolous.
  
  Butt plug

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