Diamonds worthless... READ

Crash · 10-20-2005, 04:42 AM

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/te...diamonds_x.htm

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The other process is called chemical vapor deposition, or CVD. It's more subtle. It uses a combination of carbon gases, temperature and pressure that, Linares says, re-creates conditions present at the beginning of the universe. Atoms from the vapor land on a tiny diamond chip placed in the chamber. Then the vapor particles take on the structure of that diamond — growing the diamond, atom by atom, into a much bigger diamond.

CVD can make diamonds that are clear and utterly pure. It's also a way to make diamond wafers, much like silicon wafers for computer chips. The CVD process can be tweaked by putting in enough boron to allow the diamond to conduct a current. That turns the diamond into a semiconductor."

diamond fakes coming big time, impossible to tell the difference.

Dyne · 10-20-2005, 04:53 AM

Great read.

The best thing about this technology is that they can produce their own raw material over and over with the produced material.

Typhoid · 10-20-2005, 04:55 AM

Maybe we can make puppies even bigger, and cuter than before.

Then a douse of red paint, and voila.

Clifford, the big, Red Dog.

Dyne · 10-20-2005, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Maybe we can make puppies even bigger, and cuter than before.

Then a douse of red paint, and voila.

Clifford, the big, Red Dog.

Oh snap!

GameMaster · 10-20-2005, 05:11 AM

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In technology, the diamond is a dream material. It can make computers run at speeds that would melt the innards of today's computers. Manufactured diamonds could help make lasers of extreme power. The material could allow a cellphone to fit into a watch and iPods to store 10,000 movies, not just 10,000 songs. Diamonds could mean frictionless medical replacement joints. Or coatings — perhaps for cars — that never scratch or wear out.

Oh man, I can't wait for the first diamond computer!

Teuthida · 10-20-2005, 08:34 AM

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Manufactured diamonds will be like other inventions that were so profound because they made new things possible. Steel allowed engineers to dream of skyscrapers and suspension bridges. Transistors led to computers and pacemakers and so much else. So this may be the beginning of the diamond age of technology.

Says Linares: "The genie is out of the bottle, and it can never be put back in."

Sweet. Gonna change the world.