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Diamond crushed to Saturn's extremes
Topic Started: Jul 16 2014, 11:41 PM (166 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

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 :P ?
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Any scraps from this diamond experiment can be sent to me
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