So you’re saying I could get a diamond tip nozzle for my desktop 3d printer?
You can already, and for quite some time. They claim to be superior to all others.
Either JPL or LM (I can’t remember which) was working on a HTHP system with the goal of being able to grow diamonds with ICs built in. I wonder if this has that potential.
This just tells me that diamonds are even more worthless.
??? The strongest material available to us seems worthless to manufacture to you??
they clearly meant diamonds as jewelry.
How?
Compared to their artificially inflated price. They’re obviously useful in industry - mainly for their thermal conductivity and their hardness - but their price as a jewel is complete bullshit. They’re not rare at all in nature, but one company controls all of them and uses advertising to drive up demand and public perception.
Wow, I didn’t know that. Interesting.
Folks like de beers hoard diamonds and jack up prices to make folks think they are more rare that what they really are. We gotta stop the cycle and buy lab grown or use an entirely different stone all together. Diamonds are for basic bitches anyhow
I think quartz looks nice.
Recommend looking into moissanite also if you like diamonds but don’t want to support the industry. Very similar looking, better in some ways. And because it hardly occurs naturally at all, you can only buy synthetic.
Use metal and artistic value, like this.
And if the pattern is open enough, sun ligh will leave the mark on the skin. It’s one very discreet way to keep the “mark” of who we love, skin deep.
So you mean it might be possible to remove the wedding ring without leaving a mark, making it easier to hide that you’re married?
What I wanted to convey is, if the mesh is fine enough, the pattern can get marked on the skin, leaving an elegant but discreet - shall we call it - love brand behind.
If you’re going to cheat, at least be bold enough about it and keep the wedding band on.
Hehe, yeah I intentionally misunderstood your comment to make a joke…
With my so, we actually talked about getting a ring tattoo instead of an actual ring because of how we both never wear jewellery.
Some good humored banter never hurt anybody.
That is the sole thing I draw the line. Scynical as it may sound, ink on skin, no. It feels as an ownership brand that can never be taken off or thrown away.
I personally dislike the notion of being permanent on another life. Either because things don’t work, people grow apart or someone simply dies, from misfortune, sickness or old age, nobody should be tied to another, in any way. Life should go on. Must.
And I’m happily and for a long time monogamous.
They always were – outside of engineering of course.
Do we really want to use the word “groundbreaking” to describe advances in synthetic minerals?
Fantastic video on how synthetic diamonds are being made and the advancements in the industry:
These diamonds are too tiny for jewelry but I don’t care.
I want a diamond heat spreader for my CPU!
However, the new method has its own challenges. One problem is that the diamonds grown with this technique are tiny; the largest ones are hundreds of thousands of times smaller than the ones grown with HPHT. That makes them too small to be used as jewels.
Not going to be wearing these any time soon
Just wear hundreds of thousands of them glued together, problem solved.
On a more realistic note though, the applications of this will probably be industrial for a good while. I found it interesting how the article mentions that they were able to develop a diamond coating over their growth substrate. That probably has some cool applications in industrial settings where diamond-plated materials are used.
Diamond saw blades are about to get cheaper
Not in a profit driven economy…
It depends; if a company can use this to make them stupid cheap, then selling them stupid cheap to undercut all their competitors could still make them more money than keeping the price the same and pocketing the saved production costs.
I was making a jab. I’m aware of market forces, but price memory is a thing and often the true cost of production isn’t reflected in consumer pricing. Especially when an industry just decides they can keep prices where they are if not raise them, looking at you egg producers.
Not useful for jewelry, but possibly quite useful for many manufacturing or industrial purposes?
So… useful then?
Similar conditions are employed in the method currently used to synthesize 99% of all artificially created diamonds. Called high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) growth, this method uses these extreme settings to coax carbon dissolved in liquid metals, like iron, to convert it to diamond around a small seed, or starter diamond.
Cool. I don’t know how expensive this process is right now, but it seems cheaper to do, at least on mass production.
“Bender, be careful! Thats the ship’s diamond filament tether. It’s unbreakable!”
“Then why do I have to be careful?”
“It belonged to my grandmother.”
they are small, but the large diamonds are made from seeds, so still can be used for that, or techniques can improve for larger size production in the future, also, small diamonds are useful for cutting machines
Hey hey hey, don’t break the ground. Are they insane?
Looks like the diamond industry just wrote a new hit list
The picture is a bit misleading, they are super tiny! Very cool thought.
Super tiny is fine for the things diamonds are used for besides sparkling on fingers.
Looking forward to a future when fake rhinestones are just kinda shit manufactured diamonds.
