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Josh
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 Posted - Feb 01 2005 : 7:23:59 PM
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does anyone no where ill find something hot enough to melt diamond?
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Feb 02 2005 : 09:48:15 AM
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The sun?
Apparently, a diamond melts at 1687 Kelvin, which is around 2576.93 degrees Fahrenheit. That's not extraordinarily hot. You can get those temperatures out of an oxy-acetylene torch, arc welder, etc.
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Chamkeeper
Mad Scientist
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Posted - Feb 02 2005 : 11:35:51 AM
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A question of purpose comes to mind.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2005 : 02:01:35 AM
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diamond burns, so youll have to do it in an evacuated chamber depending on its combustion temp.
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - Feb 09 2005 : 05:14:14 AM
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Good lord! You're wanting to melt diamond! I've truthfully never heard of that. Why do you wanna do that for? If diamond burns I wouldn't want to be near it. You don't know what to expect. I'm not that good with atoms; could I call diamond high density glass? My imagination is going crazy hear. Maybe it'll pop like pop-corn when burned. LOL
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Feb 09 2005 : 09:27:01 AM
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Diamond is just carbon, so it will just burn like anything else.
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Feb 09 2005 : 3:57:22 PM
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Ok then Aaron thankyou.
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Alessandro
Apprentece
Australia
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Posted - Apr 24 2005 : 07:05:59 AM
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dimonds won't melt they will sublime, like dryice.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Apr 24 2005 : 11:31:19 AM
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how do they coat stuff with it then?
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yo_tyler
Apprentice
Canada
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Posted - Apr 24 2005 : 11:48:21 PM
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1. to melt diamond you will need to make a mini elctric forge. make a small cube with a hollow center out of fire brick. get some carbon electrodes, and a 80amp PSU.(arc welder) put one carbon electrode on each side of the cube, with a small gap between. place the diamond in the gap between the electrodes. attach the welder, and ZZap that diamond. it might work (it will get hot enough, but diamond will burn).
2. why on earth would you want to melt diamond???
3. isn't diamont a little pricey to be melting?
4. thay coat stuff by grinding the diamond into dust, and glueing it.
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
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Posted - Apr 25 2005 : 1:05:03 PM
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Diamond is a crystal, so it's not exactly easy to handle.
It's not like glass at all.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Apr 26 2005 : 2:35:52 PM
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I know how its done for cutting applications, but have you seen where they put a thin film on a surface for berings and other low friction applications?
I there is also a watch in popular science that is coated
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - Apr 27 2005 : 03:41:44 AM
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I think they put diamond on those massive drills that bore holes in the earth.
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Apr 28 2005 : 4:08:37 PM
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Crystals can be 'grown' directly onto surfaces. It involves blasting a chemical soup vapor at a surface under very tightly controled conditions in a vaccuum chamber. The chemical vapors start to coat the surface and self-arrange into the crystal structure.
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - Apr 30 2005 : 05:27:14 AM
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COOL! This is very interesting.
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Kale
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help plz!
