Why not call it adamantium?
August 30, 2005 1:47 PM Subscribe
Harder than diamond. Compress C60 with heat, and get the hardest substance known. But will it be pretty?
TwelveTwo = James Bond?
I'm kind of curious what would happen if you applied this "isothermal bulk modulus" to MeFites? Who would be considered the densest?
posted by mystyk at 2:28 PM on August 30, 2005
I'm kind of curious what would happen if you applied this "isothermal bulk modulus" to MeFites? Who would be considered the densest?
posted by mystyk at 2:28 PM on August 30, 2005
How can it harder than diamonds when its got diamond in its name, aggregated diamond nanorods? The real question is whether Wolverine's claws would be able to slice through it or not.
posted by fenriq at 2:31 PM on August 30, 2005
posted by fenriq at 2:31 PM on August 30, 2005
The Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics at the University of Bayreuth has some photos of their 5000 ton multianvil press (the green & red one) Additional technical details about the press can be found here (340 kb PDF).
Basically, a multianvil press applies high pressure to small polyhedral samples along multiple axes simultaneously: this 1967 paper (85 kb PDF) explains several types. More links here.
Just the tool for your next startup, or to keep your loved, carbon-based life forms close to you:
The LifeGem® is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life. The LifeGem diamond provides a way to embrace your loved one’s memory day by day. The LifeGem® is the most unique and timeless memorial available for creating a testimony to their unique life. Your LifeGem memorial will offer comfort and support when and where you need it, and provide a lasting memory that endures just as a diamond does. Forever.
posted by cenoxo at 5:25 PM on August 30, 2005
Basically, a multianvil press applies high pressure to small polyhedral samples along multiple axes simultaneously: this 1967 paper (85 kb PDF) explains several types. More links here.
Just the tool for your next startup, or to keep your loved, carbon-based life forms close to you:
The LifeGem® is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life. The LifeGem diamond provides a way to embrace your loved one’s memory day by day. The LifeGem® is the most unique and timeless memorial available for creating a testimony to their unique life. Your LifeGem memorial will offer comfort and support when and where you need it, and provide a lasting memory that endures just as a diamond does. Forever.
posted by cenoxo at 5:25 PM on August 30, 2005
cenoxo - I wish there were a way to swap your post for mine - yours would make a much better Front Page Post. I am chastened.
posted by birdsquared at 7:51 PM on August 30, 2005
posted by birdsquared at 7:51 PM on August 30, 2005
birdsquared: Please don't be—nobody can join the party until the host opens the door.
We all see different things, and that's the beauty of MeFi.
posted by cenoxo at 8:42 PM on August 30, 2005
We all see different things, and that's the beauty of MeFi.
posted by cenoxo at 8:42 PM on August 30, 2005
uh: The Moh's Scale is my fave scale.
Well, just don't be too hard on yourself...
posted by cenoxo at 8:49 PM on August 30, 2005
Well, just don't be too hard on yourself...
posted by cenoxo at 8:49 PM on August 30, 2005
Your LifeGem memorial will offer comfort and support when and where you need it, and provide a lasting memory that endures just as a diamond does. Forever.
...Well, technically, diamonds aren't forever. They're metastable at room temperature (thermodynamically unfavourable by slightly over one kilojoule per mol, if I recall correctly), and if left alone for a few billion years, will collapse to plain old graphite. But that's the sort of thing only we chemistry nerds worry about. </pedant>
posted by alsorises at 9:44 PM on September 1, 2005
...Well, technically, diamonds aren't forever. They're metastable at room temperature (thermodynamically unfavourable by slightly over one kilojoule per mol, if I recall correctly), and if left alone for a few billion years, will collapse to plain old graphite. But that's the sort of thing only we chemistry nerds worry about. </pedant>
posted by alsorises at 9:44 PM on September 1, 2005
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