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Step 10Make it into a Keepsake
Obviously, this falls a bit short of what we think of when we hear "diamond". But, after posting the original article, I came up with a pretty cool way to preserve my achievement.
I filled a small washer with clear epoxy and dropped my diamond into it. After it hardened, I strung it on a chain to make a diamond necklace.
My wife was impressed. After all, how many women can wear a diamond that their husband actually MADE?
I filled a small washer with clear epoxy and dropped my diamond into it. After it hardened, I strung it on a chain to make a diamond necklace.
My wife was impressed. After all, how many women can wear a diamond that their husband actually MADE?
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I used a recipe 5 or 6 years ago using charcoal brickettes and oil in the microwave and it did produce a pile a sharp little brutal chystals..I never had them checked though. But they were black and somehow I hoped they're be clear..
I did fry my old micro, but I never used it on food anyway..
I think you would be better off and SAFER (well maybe not safer) using a Thermite reaction to generate the heat (5000 degrees). You can make the fake diamonds faster and in bigger quantities. Use clay pots that are used for plants as your crucibles. For the pressure, put it all in a scuba tank and pressure it up (3000 psi). If that doesn't make diamonds better than nature, nothing will!
PS - the patent is pending!
Na na, you've got it all wrong. Juggling chainsaws is step 3, step 2 is the hospital. Mind you step 1 is time travel amoung other april fools day worthy articles.
When something like this is running, the focused microwave radiation will create temps around 4000f degrees thanks to the heat retention abilities of the steel vice pressing on the carbon ingot. Let this run for ten days straight and shut the unit down. Wait about five hours for the unit to completely cool off, then check the end product.
*Patent pending on the unit, btw*
We all want this to work (some desperately so). I guess I really did pick an appealing topic.
Microwaves are VERY mysterious - no wonder, since we grew up hearing myths like "they cook from the inside-out", and "the food keeps cooking for 5 minutes afterwards." If they can do all that, surly they can make diamonds, right?
People can easily confuse theory with practice. A lot of folks have argued that this could work. Well, "yes" it's possible to make synthetic diamonds... but "no" this is not the right way.
The aspect of the prank people found most suspicious was 100% true - running a microwave by entering 99 minutes, 99 seconds. Any doubters should go to their microwaves right now, enter "99.99" and press "start". It will work, trust me.