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What is the most thermally conductive material in the universe? (natural or synthetic)?

September 6th, 2008 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Physics
synthetic diamonds
Eric N asked:


I know that copper and silver are neck and neck, with diamond dominating copper five-fold. I’ve heard that liquid He is like a thermal super conductor in its super fluid state, but I have yet to see the numbers.
I know that copper and silver are neck and neck, with diamond dominating copper five-fold. I’ve heard that liquid He is like a thermal super conductor in its super fluid state, but I have yet to see the numbers.

I just wanted the best KNOWN conductor.

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Is It Possible To Cremate A Person, Take The Ashes and Make It Into A Diamond Ring?

August 27th, 2008 by admin | 5 Comments | Filed in Physics
synthetic diamonds
Jens Yao asked:


Is It Possible To Cremate A Person, Take The Ashes (which is made out of carbon) and Make It Into A Diamond (which is also made out of carbon) using the GE method called HPHT (High Pressure, High Temperature)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

How much would that cost?

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Diamonds?

May 28th, 2008 by admin | 8 Comments | Filed in Physics
man made diamonds
Heath S asked:


Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth’s orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.

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