Heard an interesting story tonight at our Roundtable;
Supposed to have been a kid in Australia who was taking chemistry or
physics....they were studying crystals and how to grow them, the kid
asked why couldn't they grow diamonds, the teacher said diamonds were a
result of heat and pressure on carbon....
The kid took an oxygen bottle, cut out the bottom, installed two
transducers facing a plate....oxygen and acetylene were burned over the
plate...the acetylene produced volumes of carbon soot, possibly as
fullerenes....and a specific frequency was projected so that an intense
standing wave was produced to acoustically capture and COMPRESS THE
CARBON...the kid came to school the next week with a handful of small
artifically made diamonds.....
Hey, a guy there told the story and had no further info on it, so I'm
just the messenger, don't shoot me...if you look at the sonic waste
disposal unit and the cavity acoustic intensifier and the acoustic
refrigerator and such, this might be possible to amplify force to
produce the pressure you need with the carbon with the heat to make
diamonds....
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