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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz |
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<...pluterday, in the sub-basement of the Chrysler building with a handful of graphite, briskly rubs her hands together...> Doesnt work, eff. |
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converted into diamonds after a few hundred thousand years |
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Not if you use (j(a(c(k(ham)m)e)r)s) |
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What if you were to house an enormous gyroscope, which pivots on a very large ball socket at the top of the building and then balanced the whole thing on an extremely small base? [link]
Sorry, couldnt stop myself. |
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Foiled again. Those darn scientists. |
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"Batman is a scientist!"
--Homer Simpson |
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>The consensus seems to be that temperatures
>exceeding 1500K are required, along with pressures
>in excess of 50,000 atm. That's 705,000 psi. |
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If thats true, how the heck did any get made naturally??? In a volcano? Diamond is flammable btw. |
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//In a volcano?// Why do you think they are "always" mined from volcano shafts? (yes) |
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how the hot fudge sunday are diamonds flammable? they're carbon. carbon's what you get left over after all the flammable stuff has burned up |
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//how the hot fudge sunday are diamonds flammable? they're carbon. carbon's what you get left over after all the flammable stuff has burned up// |
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No. Carbon Dioxide is what you get after all the flammable carbon has burned up. |
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Diamonds are quite hard to light, though. |
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Diamonds will burn spectacularly well if heated to incandescence with an oxy-acetylene torch, then dropped into liquid oxygen. |
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They form in Volcanoes under high pressure, high temperature, and anerobic coniditions. No oxygen=no combustion. |
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