On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:09:14PM +0100, g'o'tz ohnesorge wrote:
> Aaron P Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
> > Diamond". When I talk about Manufactured Diamonds I am talking about the
> > process of artificialy GROWING a REAL DIAMOND useing Carbon, the stuff
> > Diamonds are made of, and extremely high pressure. The process has been
> > perfected to the point that it is almost impossible to tell any
>
> There's some articles about that on the net, and they've gotten quite far.
> But the real way to "real" diamonds is not so much high pressure as a vacuum,
> and an electric field.
I've never heard of that one. They main way that I know of is to make
a metal cube containing graphite on one end and aluminum in the metal
matrix (various metals act as a solvent for the graphite, and aluminum
binds with any nitrogen present to keep it from entering the growing
diamond crystal (which causes the diamond to be very dark)) and
putting it under very high pressure and temperatures. This is the
pretty much standard method (the only non-standard thing in here is
the aluminum), IIRC.
> > So why is it OK to use artificialy grown food or cotton, but not OK to
> > use artificialy grown gems like Diamonds? It makes no sense to me at
> > all.
>
> Diamonds never really had any great value - they're cheap carbon that does
> burn, though not as well as coal. They're available in much greater
> quantities than needed for industrial purposes (drills etc.).
Well, they are quite good for machining things.
> There's two reasons that keep the price up: a) women like the crap (just like
> Backstreet Boys music), and b) DeBeers runs their quasi-monopoly in order to
> keep the scam going that diamonds are a good thing to park your money in.
I agree completely. Diamonds are a waste of money (and as was said
earlier, most of the natural ones are soaked in blood). There are
many better (and useful) ways to spend large quantities of money than
on diamonds.
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