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| Diamond crushed to Saturn's extremes | |
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| CJ | Jul 16 2014, 11:41 PM Post #1 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28295574 Diamond, nature's hardest material, has been crushed to record extremes of pressure using the "world's biggest laser", US scientists report. The carbon crystal was condensed to the core pressure of Saturn - 14 times that at the centre of the Earth. The big squeeze was performed inside the US National Ignition Facility, which recently featured in Star Trek. "Our experiments provide a method for recreating conditions within the cores of giant gas planets - both within our solar system and beyond. "It has been proposed, for example, that Neptune has a diamond in its core, due to decomposition of methane which gets compacted under extreme pressure." Sounds like this must be a very extreme material! I wonder how valuable it is - and how valuable the diamond in Neptune's core would be, if it indeed exists ?
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| Giselle | Jul 17 2014, 12:26 AM Post #2 |
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Rank 5
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Any scraps from this diamond experiment can be sent to me |
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