>
This Terrifying Alex Jones Prediction Has Just Come True
Joe Rogan Experience #2115 - Riley Gaines (Publisher Recommended)
Amish Officially Declared 'World's Healthiest Children' After Rejecting Big Pharma Vacci
Guns in the Home Statistics: The Effects of Firearms in the Home in 2024
27 Ft-tall 3D-printed Structure Built by New Robot | ICON's Multi-Story Robotic Construction Sys
Correction – 2 Megawatt Walk Away Safe Truck Movable Nuclear Reactors
SpaceX Starlink is Coming to All Cars and is Close to Cable Internet Latency
2 Megawatt Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In a Truck
Topsy passed all its tests (Edison Motors - Canada)
Will This The Electric VTOL Fullfil the Dream of the Flying Car?
Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Cathode Innovation for Sodium-Ion Batteries
SpaceX Prepares For Third Starship Launch As Early As Next Week
Astonishing scar-free surgery prints living skin right into wounds
Diamond nanomembranes make electronics 10x cooler, 5x faster to charge
Diamonds are forever, or so the slogan goes. But with the proper application of heat and enough oxygen, a diamond can go up in smoke.
Diamonds are carbon, just like coal. It takes a bit more to get them burning and keep them burning than coal, but they will burn, as numerous YouTube demonstrations will attest. The trick is to create the right conditions so that a solid diamond can react with the oxygen required to fuel a fire.
"You have to convert that solid [carbon] into a gas form, so it can react with the air to make a flame," said Rick Sachleben, a retired chemist and member of the American Chemical Society.
The best way to do that? Heat — and lots of it. In room temperature air, diamonds ignite at around 1,652 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius), according to West Texas A&M University physicist Christopher Baird. For comparison, a high-volatile coal (coal containing a relatively high amount of easily released gases) ignites at about 1,233 F (667 C), whereas wood ignites at 572 F (300 C) or less, depending on the type.
When first heated, a diamond will glow red, then white. The heat enables a reaction between the surface of the diamond and the air, converting the carbon to the colorless and odorless gas carbon monoxide (a carbon atom plus an oxygen atom).
"The carbon plus the oxygen to make carbon monoxide generates heat; the carbon monoxide reacting with the oxygen generates more heat; the rising heat causes the carbon monoxide to move away, so more oxygen is brought in," he told Live Science.