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[UncleAl]

Originally Posted by Tim_Lou

i was surfing the internet, and i found something very interesting!!!!
take a look at this website below:
http://www.rangeguide.net/diamonds.htm

it tells you how to do an experiment to make diamond out of peanut butter!

"A Complete Procedure to Produce Diamonds
LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATION / ALCHEMY "

You believe that crap? Do you believe any of that crap?

http://www.me.berkeley.edu/diamond/s...ro/cphased.htm

Deposition of carbon at ambient pressure will only get you graphite unless you are in a bath of hydrogen radicals. The original work was Bradford Pate's' PhD thesis at Stanford that became the rational basis of argon/hydrogen/methane CVD diamond. That is the whole of it.

The publicity stunt of General Electric making high pressure/high temperature diamond out of peanut butter was actually quite awful. Tracy Hall's kids are in the HPHT business big time,

http://www.novatekonline.com/
sintered diamond and c-BN

All that makes is abrasive. Gem diamond synthesis is high art and won't get you much beyond a couple of carats.