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Diamond seas, diamond icebergs, a whole ****load of diamonds:
http://www.phenomenica.com/2010/01/o...-diamonds.html Pat |
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Um, something I don't understand.
For this phenomena you need to be at: 11 million ATMs and 50,000 degress (what? K? C? F?, article doesn't say). Better link resolves this question, it's K: https://newsline.llnl.gov/_rev02/lab...09-labNews.php And if that link makes your tin hat tingle you can go directly to the paper at http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/...nphys1438.html but it'll cost you $18 to read beyond the abstract. Yeah, internet is soo much faster for getting me stuff I have to pay to read that I used to take a day or two to find at my university's library for free... It's a rich man's utopia.... Dave |
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"David Spain" wrote in message
... Um, something I don't understand. For this phenomena you need to be at: 11 million ATMs and 50,000 degress (what? K? C? F?, article doesn't say). Better link resolves this question, it's K: At that temp, does it really matter? :-) -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" writes:
At that temp, does it really matter? :-) You have a point. It's not like I'm going to try to melt some diamond in the kitchen oven tonight. :-) Plus getting to 50,000 K inside a gas giant w/o convection may be a possibility suggested in the article, but it seems a stretch to me. Wasn't it A.C. Clarke that suggested the possibility of diamonds as gas giant planetary cores in his book 2010? I seem to remember reading something about those 'monolithic' aliens and the new and improved David Bowman knowing the core of Jupiter was a diamond the size of the Earth? Dave |
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"David Spain" wrote in message
... "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" writes: At that temp, does it really matter? :-) You have a point. It's not like I'm going to try to melt some diamond in the kitchen oven tonight. :-) It's sorta like saying it's -40 out and someone asking if that's F or C. :-) Plus getting to 50,000 K inside a gas giant w/o convection may be a possibility suggested in the article, but it seems a stretch to me. Wasn't it A.C. Clarke that suggested the possibility of diamonds as gas giant planetary cores in his book 2010? I seem to remember reading something about those 'monolithic' aliens and the new and improved David Bowman knowing the core of Jupiter was a diamond the size of the Earth? Ayup, and this became a large plot point in 2061. Dave -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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David Spain wrote:
You have a point. It's not like I'm going to try to melt some diamond in the kitchen oven tonight. Get it hot enough in the presence of oxygen, and it will burn, not melt, and all you'll have for your trouble is some CO2. Pat |
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Wasn't it A.C. Clarke that suggested the possibility of diamonds as gas giant planetary cores in his book 2010? I seem to remember reading something about those 'monolithic' aliens and the new and improved David Bowman knowing the core of Jupiter was a diamond the size of the Earth? Ayup, and this became a large plot point in 2061. For someone who once said he didn't write sequels because he "never returns to the scene of the crime" he seems to have learned how to write them in relation to one particular book. ;-) I'd have to check up on this to see if it's still current theory, but way back in the 1960's they thought that white dwarf stars eventually burned out and turned into big balls of diamond. Pat |
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Pat Flannery ) writes:
David Spain wrote: You have a point. It's not like I'm going to try to melt some diamond in the kitchen oven tonight. Get it hot enough in the presence of oxygen, and it will burn, not melt, and all you'll have for your trouble is some CO2. Get it hot enough in the absence of oxygen, and it may turn into graphite, which is the more stable form at normal pressure. (But perhaps beyond the reach of kitchen technology.) --John Park |
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