I never took chemistry at school, yet here I am ten years later following your channel. You got to love how the internet has made knowledge readily available, just one mouse click away. Thank you for sharing these things!
@jojo19001 Not quite burn, but if you heat it up and put it in liquid oxygen it reacts rapidly forming gaseous carbon dioxide. Turning something rather spectacular and incredibly rare into a fairly underwhelming gas.
This may have wonderfully explained why non-geeky women only appreciate geeks later in life.
"What are you doing with that diamond, Honey?"
"I'm just going to measure it's absorption and emission spectra, play with some plasmons, test its diamagnetic properties, and finally bring it to it's ultimate destiny!"
"A necklace?"
"Huh? No, I'm going to burn it. I think I can get a pretty awesome whooshing noise. I think you might like it!"
>ww<
"Err, did you want to drop it in the liquid oxygen?"
Unusually for you, this video is misleading with regards to the quality of synthetic diamonds. Substances with very high optical power have been created. Solid plates of nanoscale polycrystalline diamond are used as windows in fusion reactors because they can withstand 1MW of microwave power.
nothing says I love you like African slave diamonds... I told my wife it took the death of average 5 slaves a week to bring her the wedding ring she wanted :P
It is very sad to watch this video full of misleading statements, especially the part about small size and low optical properties of synthetic diamonds.Whoever wants to know more on the subject has the internet in their disposal, but I think the Professor should have really more time preparing for this video.
How doesn't that contradict with 1. The great gap between 2p and 3s orbitals 2. The octet rule (whom I may discount due to lack of knowledge about HOMO and LUMO) 3. The space organization.
@Olhado256 "No one on Earth should be rich enough to be able to pay $12 million for a stone, no matter how beautiful or rare it is. It's just absurd.
"
I see where you're coming from but why not? What's the alternative, that the state decides how much of your hard earned money you get to keep, and the surplus is theirs to spend? That's called communism, and when did that ever work? In a perfect world I agree with you. In the real world, well, reality gets in the way.
@Olhado256 erm, yeah. You can judge anyone for anything, but you will be judged by the same standard in front of God. Jesus said that "it is easier for a camel to thread through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven" so maybe you should feel sorry for them more than anything. :)
@Lcowand1 having heirs is an ancient practice. a persons progeny reflects the traits and gene-pool of his bloodline, so giving them a financially ideal scenario to reproduce is a form of selective breeding. For a person like Paris Hilton, this system has actually REDUCED her reproductivity which is unfortunate for her kind. We should implore her to do away with her wealth and procreate for the glory of her fathers.
Also a diamond that size is gaudy and is appropriate only for a hood ornament.
@Olhado256 Ohh. Theoretically you could order a piece of uranium-245(+ -) or antimatter or plutonium or whatever, I'd cost you a lot. Either way, at least diamond gives off some clean energy decaying to graphite. Also think about the conditions it has gone to be such, as explained, it would cost a lot to make something like this today. Not the best thing to make or buy, but the price isn't unreasonable.
@RSXdaLV I'd not expect much usable energy from the transformation of diamond to graphite (not decay). Although the change in enthalpy is negative, the transformation is so slow so the possible wattage would be next to zero.
Have had a very big interest in these. Read a few years ago that a company was able to make then via chemical vapour deposition. Had virtually no understanding of the science behind it (starting out as undergrad). It wasnt written by a scientist but i found it interesting that apparently De Beers tried nasty tactics to put these people out of business.
It's quite silly really. There are many very "rare" things on Earth. It takes a bit of marketing to make men vie for any of them. Combine rare with "perceived" beauty and viola . . . immense sums compete for ownership. Personally, its smacks a bit about vanity to me. I have this and you don't.
I was left with two questions and I'm off to google...
What percentage of the carbon atoms need to be replaced with nitrogen to make it visibly yellow?
Are there examples of diamonds where one part of it his nitrogen replacing some of the carbons, while in another part boron replaces some? I imagine that'd be quite a sight!
Given that I was a billonaire, I would buy the diamond, tease woman with it then have the Professor and Neil Burn it. Though, I would have them burn it in front of a Women's congressional meeting. :P
A diamond is pure carbon in its most stable form. But if it is contaminated with other elements such s Nitrogen bound to the carbon tetraeder network it is no more a diamond. It is moreover a super hypo cyanide R-CN chemically spoken.
Instead of burning the diamond, why not knock on the door of your geology department to see if they have anything remarkable to say about the finished stone? Then stick it in a drawer somewhere.
Yeah, I know that people are dying in africa and other parts of the world from lack of food and water, and I know I could save so many of them with all this money I have, but no, I'm just going to buy a big yellow diamond.
defects in the crystal lattice can also produce color in diamonds, without any other elements present. a yellow diamond can be turned green or blue using neutron radiation, and then you can get rid of some of the crystal defects using high-pressure-high-temperature treatment, which might result in orange or pink or greenish-yellow.
Question: Since, when enough pressure is exerted on graphite, it goes from a hexagonal to a cubic structure and from 2 to 10 on Moh's scale to become the hardest natural substance on Earth, in theory, could an even harder allotrope of any other element be formed given enough pressure? Just curious.
@Marchawc IMO (humbly) i would say yes n no... given the distinct properties of C I'd say no since C it's naturally predisposed to take that crystal structure under pressure, it just so happens that it looks awesome when it does. And my guess would be given lots of pressure other elements would undergo the same structure but they wouldn't look as nice... take for example salt... crystal structure but it looks awful to the naked eye.
The strength would not be the same. Although the nitrogen would make the same number of bonds as carbon does in diamond (4), the C-C bond enthalpy is higher than that of the C-N bond enthalpy.
@itsabomberscope According to the professor they have 4 bonds just like the carbon. So the strength would be the same. Also there are so few nitrogen atoms it would be too small to consider. I'm not a chemist though so someone should confirm.
There will be more diamonds and bigger ones in the 'middle' of the earth, they are more common that the price reflects. They cut of the suply to keep prices up.
I think perhaps Mrs Poliakoff would be very cross with the Prof if he was given the diamond and he burnt it instead of giving it to her. I don't know.
My father's a jeweler, and I remember being told that yellow diamonds are actually more common than colourless diamonds. If I remember correctly, Colour is one of the main ways to rank the value of diamonds, with colourless diamonds being significantly more expensive than yellow-brown diamonds.
Hey professor, great video. Love your explanation! Can you please make a video explaining how the company 'Gemesis' makes its jewelry quality yellow diamonds? Thanks a bunch Professor & Nottingham crew! :-)
On a similar note, I've seen similar changes in color when you add different elements to Gold. The common ones I've seen are white, red, and green gold. Not sure what is added. I've mostly seen it used on pocket watches where they put intricate designs on the cases.
I can not understand why will someone pay so much for diamonds, gold, other rare materials or elements.
There will not be long until we are able to produce even better materials with great proprieties so all this "rare" materials will have no value or much less value.
@MultiAxian There already synthetic diamond produced and there will be not long until they will exceed the real one as quantity. Less than 10 years.
Also the synthetic is chemically indistinguishable from the natural one so the value will drop to the price of synthetic that is at least hundred of time less.
This synthetic diamonds will soon be used computer microchips since they are an excellent thermal conductor.
@electrodacus yeah, but synthetic diamonds are different from natural diamonds, no matter how many synthetic diamonds you make will not change fact that natural diamonds are natural, and that in itself holds significant value. natural diamond reserves are only going to decrease while consumer demand is always going to stay high and that fact leads to the value of natural diamonds to increase. they are chemically indistinguishable, yes, but that never stopped the market from over-pricing stuff.
@electrodacus You are correct. But I would like to add to your statement of: "Also the synthetic is chemically indistinguishable from the natural one"
You're correct, but in most cases, you are not. A lot of natural diamonds do not form so perfectly as synthetic ones, and in most natural diamonds, there are flaws. which is why it's easy to tell a synthetic one, from a natural one, because natural ones come with flaws, or they may not be as transparent. This video is a perfect example.
@electrodacus Perfect synthetic diamonds are used in scientific experiments by scientists only. Since diamond has a Mohs rating of 10, it is usually used in cutting purposes. Other synthetic gems are also made like ruby and sapphire, but since they are fairly weak they are only used for laser purposes.
1 atom in a million! That really drives home the point about just how dense diamond is. + rofl neal burning it
sm0kingJay 2 days ago
Can Diamond cut through Graphene ?
bninjabninja 3 days ago
Takes on average 1 to 3.3 billion years for natural diamonds to form - yes a long, long time!
grofuss 4 days ago
I never took chemistry at school, yet here I am ten years later following your channel. You got to love how the internet has made knowledge readily available, just one mouse click away. Thank you for sharing these things!
01newuser 4 days ago
Well said Palakoff.
manmanguy 5 days ago
One famous example of a blue diamond is the famous, or some would say infamous, Hope Diamond.
OtakuBozu 1 week ago
double rare? as a 90's kid that just means its a shiny!
BrokenBrilliance 1 week ago
maybe a very diamond??
JOCHSZCH 1 week ago
What is the abstract element in a Pink diamond?
justinwhoknowsit 1 week ago 3
@justinwhoknowsit - Red, pink & brown color diamonds are caused by crystal lattice defects during the formation of the diamond.
CmdrGendoIkari 5 days ago
Minecraft diamonds have boron in them. It wall makes sense now.
grande1899 1 week ago 2
Kill the rich?
Kill the rich.
YawnGod 2 weeks ago
lol if u burn that diamond youd get tons of views but also millions of dislikes
diegonikki 2 weeks ago
no u dont need high pressure u need creative mode :D
diegonikki 2 weeks ago
so u burn a diamond ?
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@jojo19001 Quite possible, yes
xDestroyer2x 2 weeks ago
@jojo19001 Not quite burn, but if you heat it up and put it in liquid oxygen it reacts rapidly forming gaseous carbon dioxide. Turning something rather spectacular and incredibly rare into a fairly underwhelming gas.
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This may have wonderfully explained why non-geeky women only appreciate geeks later in life.
"What are you doing with that diamond, Honey?"
"I'm just going to measure it's absorption and emission spectra, play with some plasmons, test its diamagnetic properties, and finally bring it to it's ultimate destiny!"
"A necklace?"
"Huh? No, I'm going to burn it. I think I can get a pretty awesome whooshing noise. I think you might like it!"
>ww<
"Err, did you want to drop it in the liquid oxygen?"
akashashen 3 weeks ago
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akashashen 3 weeks ago
ahhaha, yea, a lot of people would get very cross with you.
masluxx 3 weeks ago
There are lots of Blue Diamonds on Minecraft!
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Unusually for you, this video is misleading with regards to the quality of synthetic diamonds. Substances with very high optical power have been created. Solid plates of nanoscale polycrystalline diamond are used as windows in fusion reactors because they can withstand 1MW of microwave power.
alotlessmonster 1 month ago
"How many viewers do you think we would get if we burned that diamond?"
Answer: Just about all of them
themomaw 1 month ago
I WANT THAT TIE!!!
manaeiou 1 month ago
HOW MANY BONDS DOES JAMES BOND BOND???
somorastik 1 month ago 2
@260830107 very well.
626hunters 1 month ago
dimond burns?
260830107 2 months ago
@260830107 its carbon is it not?
miesrah12 1 month ago
nothing says I love you like African slave diamonds... I told my wife it took the death of average 5 slaves a week to bring her the wedding ring she wanted :P
qoaa 3 months ago
@qoaa
that lady better be happy
elflordbob1 2 months ago
A lot of people would be very cross.
Yeah, right.
jerricchong 3 months ago
if we have diamond stuctures with free electrons and others with holes,can we make semiconductors and complex microcircuits?
Rannyfash 3 months ago
Never seen blue diamonds. Never played minecra
B1ueTigerNinja 3 months ago
It is very sad to watch this video full of misleading statements, especially the part about small size and low optical properties of synthetic diamonds.Whoever wants to know more on the subject has the internet in their disposal, but I think the Professor should have really more time preparing for this video.
atenrok 3 months ago
For pictures of blue, red and many other colored diamonds go there : /watch?v=YfjrX20Oeeg
sriv1671 3 months ago
Aaaah! The professor got a new hair do. Very suave, if I do say so myself.
clearmenser 3 months ago
I love the enthusiasm for burning diamonds
wnlharris 3 months ago
The boron diamonds... I would love to have one of those...
ifsey 3 months ago
How doesn't that contradict with 1. The great gap between 2p and 3s orbitals 2. The octet rule (whom I may discount due to lack of knowledge about HOMO and LUMO) 3. The space organization.
RSXdaLV 3 months ago
"I'd find it's spectrum, and then Neal would probably burn it. Then maybe we'd dip it in liquid oxygen."
You guys are awesome.
makeitafrappe 3 months ago 109
@makeitafrappe And this is the reason why nobody gives them diamonds.
Thetarget1 1 month ago
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@makeitafrappe And this is the reason why nobody gives them diamonds.
Thetarget1 1 month ago
No one on Earth should be rich enough to be able to pay $12 million for a stone, no matter how beautiful or rare it is. It's just absurd.
Olhado256 3 months ago
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@Olhado256 "No one on Earth should be rich enough to be able to pay $12 million for a stone, no matter how beautiful or rare it is. It's just absurd.
"
I see where you're coming from but why not? What's the alternative, that the state decides how much of your hard earned money you get to keep, and the surplus is theirs to spend? That's called communism, and when did that ever work? In a perfect world I agree with you. In the real world, well, reality gets in the way.
Scaramanganexuspluss 3 months ago
@Olhado256 don't hate on rich people. They didn't get rich by being stupid.
kowalityjesus 3 months ago
@kowalityjesus I'm not saying they're stupid. I'm saying they're greedy. Can I hate them for that?
Olhado256 3 months ago
@Olhado256 erm, yeah. You can judge anyone for anything, but you will be judged by the same standard in front of God. Jesus said that "it is easier for a camel to thread through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven" so maybe you should feel sorry for them more than anything. :)
kowalityjesus 3 months ago
@kowalityjesus Paris hilton got rich for being born. which is just as bad.
Lcowand1 3 months ago
@Lcowand1 having heirs is an ancient practice. a persons progeny reflects the traits and gene-pool of his bloodline, so giving them a financially ideal scenario to reproduce is a form of selective breeding. For a person like Paris Hilton, this system has actually REDUCED her reproductivity which is unfortunate for her kind. We should implore her to do away with her wealth and procreate for the glory of her fathers.
Also a diamond that size is gaudy and is appropriate only for a hood ornament.
kowalityjesus 3 months ago
@kowalityjesus This is a hell of a comment reply.
Lcowand1 3 months ago
@Olhado256 Ohh. Theoretically you could order a piece of uranium-245(+ -) or antimatter or plutonium or whatever, I'd cost you a lot. Either way, at least diamond gives off some clean energy decaying to graphite. Also think about the conditions it has gone to be such, as explained, it would cost a lot to make something like this today. Not the best thing to make or buy, but the price isn't unreasonable.
RSXdaLV 3 months ago
@RSXdaLV I'd not expect much usable energy from the transformation of diamond to graphite (not decay). Although the change in enthalpy is negative, the transformation is so slow so the possible wattage would be next to zero.
sveegaard 3 months ago
I play Minecraft so I know how awesome diamonds are!
Scaramanganexuspluss 3 months ago
Have had a very big interest in these. Read a few years ago that a company was able to make then via chemical vapour deposition. Had virtually no understanding of the science behind it (starting out as undergrad). It wasnt written by a scientist but i found it interesting that apparently De Beers tried nasty tactics to put these people out of business.
ironnica 3 months ago
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There is a big difference between synthetic and artificial
Ricalloo 3 months ago
will a diamond be green if i put some uranium in it xD
MidnightRedemption 3 months ago
Hey does the Nitrogen mean the diamond will be like a n type semi conductor?
09876124 3 months ago
Let's start a fund to buy a big diamond and burn it! lol
sirkowski 3 months ago
You can see a blue diamond when you go to the Smithsonian; the Hope diamond is blue
Erikur17 3 months ago
so a yellow diamond isnt a real diamond?
rroge5 3 months ago
Would that burn, or explode the diamond?
teknotoast 3 months ago
Where do i get me one of those ties! :D
banetrain64 3 months ago
Professor you can buy manmade diamonds online and their larger and cheaper than their natural counterparts but the large ones are all yellow
Just go on google and type in buy man made diamonds
eaglesfannnn 3 months ago
Do a video on the MOLE
Vennificus 3 months ago
It's quite silly really. There are many very "rare" things on Earth. It takes a bit of marketing to make men vie for any of them. Combine rare with "perceived" beauty and viola . . . immense sums compete for ownership. Personally, its smacks a bit about vanity to me. I have this and you don't.
doverlin 3 months ago
Unecassary amount of hand actions.
MattyHutton9 3 months ago
Didn't they burn a diamond on the Ring of Truth PBS series many years back?
skyscraperjim 3 months ago
Diamonds are good for cutting things. Not worth anything besides that purpose.
HugoJanKanAl 3 months ago
chuck it into a hot oven for long enough and the diamond would turn to graphite :-D
mbnevill 3 months ago
I thought diamonds weren't all that rare in nature, but that De Beers controlled the diamond industry, driving the price up?
blendedchaitea 3 months ago
I was left with two questions and I'm off to google...
What percentage of the carbon atoms need to be replaced with nitrogen to make it visibly yellow?
Are there examples of diamonds where one part of it his nitrogen replacing some of the carbons, while in another part boron replaces some? I imagine that'd be quite a sight!
disorganizedorg 3 months ago
I vote Burn it ! :)
AtakanNW 3 months ago
I would be one of those who would be very upset if you were to burn it.
ricois3 3 months ago
Blue diamond : most famous diamond : Hope diamond!
ricois3 3 months ago
How could the prof. not have seen a blue diamond? The Hope diamond is a pretty good example...
Truthiness231 3 months ago
double rare? Like a Purple drop.... sweet loot.
Chefianf 3 months ago
Given that I was a billonaire, I would buy the diamond, tease woman with it then have the Professor and Neil Burn it. Though, I would have them burn it in front of a Women's congressional meeting. :P
Idtelos 3 months ago
If 12.6 million people all chip in a dollar then we can buy this diamond and give it to this guy to burn! Anyone up for it?
TheW1seguy 3 months ago
A diamond is pure carbon in its most stable form. But if it is contaminated with other elements such s Nitrogen bound to the carbon tetraeder network it is no more a diamond. It is moreover a super hypo cyanide R-CN chemically spoken.
pedowife4kids 3 months ago
Instead of burning the diamond, why not knock on the door of your geology department to see if they have anything remarkable to say about the finished stone? Then stick it in a drawer somewhere.
jg6752 3 months ago
What did he say at the end? "A lot of people would be very (???) with us."
I can't understand that one word.
Timrath 3 months ago
@Timrath
"cross", meaning angry...
Joddit 3 months ago
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caesiumm 3 months ago
i love your tie!
heidigruber98 3 months ago
Will it blend?
Quasi84 3 months ago
prof got a haircut, nice!
specialk9203 3 months ago
Yeah, I know that people are dying in africa and other parts of the world from lack of food and water, and I know I could save so many of them with all this money I have, but no, I'm just going to buy a big yellow diamond.
Evan2718281828 3 months ago
I love this series! This Professor is such a nice person and a wonderful narrator.
Thank you very much!
SEThatered 3 months ago
just sell it on
MegaHazzer123 3 months ago
i vote burn the diamond! :D
DJBigz1988 3 months ago
Nitric acid oxidizes carbon. Would nitric acid dissolve diamond?
TakronRust 3 months ago
That diamond looks like GOLD!
RagingBubuli 3 months ago
Surely you have seen a picture of The Hope diamond.
Seems rather blue to me.
mrblisterfist 3 months ago
How many viewers you would get for a video in which you burn this diamond? Well, I guess: All of them. Several times.
ThatGuyFromAustria 3 months ago
one thing the professor could have mentioned:
defects in the crystal lattice can also produce color in diamonds, without any other elements present. a yellow diamond can be turned green or blue using neutron radiation, and then you can get rid of some of the crystal defects using high-pressure-high-temperature treatment, which might result in orange or pink or greenish-yellow.
kurtilein3 3 months ago
my diamond has a slite yellow tint too, Maybe I can sell mine for 12m LOL
markcumbriauk 3 months ago
Question: Since, when enough pressure is exerted on graphite, it goes from a hexagonal to a cubic structure and from 2 to 10 on Moh's scale to become the hardest natural substance on Earth, in theory, could an even harder allotrope of any other element be formed given enough pressure? Just curious.
Marchawc 3 months ago
@Marchawc IMO (humbly) i would say yes n no... given the distinct properties of C I'd say no since C it's naturally predisposed to take that crystal structure under pressure, it just so happens that it looks awesome when it does. And my guess would be given lots of pressure other elements would undergo the same structure but they wouldn't look as nice... take for example salt... crystal structure but it looks awful to the naked eye.
squarechannel 3 months ago
@squarechannel I've seen some salt crystals underground that are almost perfect cubes at strange angles, it looks amazing :P
emikochan13 3 months ago
I got a diamond.|
Ha! I got a bigger one!
Pfff...i got a yellow one.
:)
nejustinas32 3 months ago
Love this: We would get a lot of views, but a lot of people would be very cross with us.
mraiford 3 months ago
Professor, you talk about the most interesting things in very understandable ways. I love these videos.
AluminumStudios 3 months ago
The strength would not be the same. Although the nitrogen would make the same number of bonds as carbon does in diamond (4), the C-C bond enthalpy is higher than that of the C-N bond enthalpy.
welshboy9 3 months ago
I've always wondered, what is at the edge of a diamond?!
8JSimo 3 months ago
If the diamond gets its hardness from its structure, does the nitrogen in the yellow diamond weaken it?
itsabomberscope 3 months ago
@itsabomberscope According to the professor they have 4 bonds just like the carbon. So the strength would be the same. Also there are so few nitrogen atoms it would be too small to consider. I'm not a chemist though so someone should confirm.
Grymyrk 3 months ago
Neil looks like a henchmen
BrokenDispenser 3 months ago
I did not know you could burn a diamond that way. Must try to use this in something.
Craydon 3 months ago
There will be more diamonds and bigger ones in the 'middle' of the earth, they are more common that the price reflects. They cut of the suply to keep prices up.
Typho0n86 3 months ago
I think perhaps Mrs Poliakoff would be very cross with the Prof if he was given the diamond and he burnt it instead of giving it to her. I don't know.
AussieEvonne 3 months ago
My father's a jeweler, and I remember being told that yellow diamonds are actually more common than colourless diamonds. If I remember correctly, Colour is one of the main ways to rank the value of diamonds, with colourless diamonds being significantly more expensive than yellow-brown diamonds.
jbrowsingj 3 months ago
I wish you are my tutor
BatistaR0X 3 months ago
Bought my ex a blue diamond engagement ring. I wish I would have bought her a clear one, because the blue doubled the price.
Higgs666 3 months ago
If i had the diamond...i'd turn it into a ring or necklace xD
spkligh 3 months ago
over 9000 viewers!!!
ikolocol 3 months ago
Dont burn it D:
xXLegionX 3 months ago 6
@xXLegionX when we have been given the $12m diamond, we'll let the public decide what we do with it via an online poll... promise!
periodicvideos 3 months ago 26
@periodicvideos the $11m diamond however, is For the Universities personal candescent uses
Vennificus 3 months ago
diamonds are so pretty!
mooooooooimacow 3 months ago
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Myrmidon717 3 months ago
"A lot of people would be very cross with us"
lulz
Klingschor 3 months ago
Thank you, professor.
I like your lectures.
TheRocinka 3 months ago
Are these different colored diamonds weaker than colorless diamonds?
aeatkins 3 months ago
lol, stuff the haters, I wanna see that diamond burn! ;P
WeaselWJ 3 months ago 26
There are also chocolate colored diamonds and slightly pinkish ones.
bamboo4tameshigiri 3 months ago
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if you heated a diamond to a high enough temperature, would it explode?
SpartanStig117 3 months ago
Thank you for the explanation:)
lucie408 3 months ago
Neil wouldn't burn the diamond. He'd make it look like he burned it and then he'd build a secret weapon around it.
teavea10 3 months ago 14
@teavea10 Neil would use it as a loofah
periodicvideos 3 months ago 21
@periodicvideos Yeah, that too, when he isn't vaporizing alien space ships with the secret weapon before they attack.
teavea10 3 months ago
lol i would love to see it burned
mobabur94 3 months ago
wow i would have guess sulfur because its yellow but i wouldnt think nitrogen because nitrogen is colorless
Superfresh602 3 months ago
LOL thumbs up for neil!
deathchronic 3 months ago
I'll bet Debbie's wearing blue diamonds in the Bismuth video.
teavea10 3 months ago
Burning $10 million or what ever diamonds. Now that would be something to see. I think this person may be put into a padded cell after that.
But, I think this is more or less; his sense of humour, which is definately very funny.
TheExaltedPheonix 3 months ago
Oh man would that be cool to see it burn.
danx033 3 months ago
Hey cat, get off my keyboard!
Whoops, I left my eBay account open.
...
I bought WHAT?!
Every1Tubes 3 months ago 65
I would like a black diamond.
Zeldakitteh 3 months ago
Hey professor, great video. Love your explanation! Can you please make a video explaining how the company 'Gemesis' makes its jewelry quality yellow diamonds? Thanks a bunch Professor & Nottingham crew! :-)
hikergate 3 months ago
supply n demand baby
solojam 3 months ago
Doctor Kenneth Noisewater
StoogesTattoo 3 months ago
I didn't know you could burn a diamond! Is that true?
lowlypawn 3 months ago 6
@lowlypawn Of course. They're just carbon.
JesusHChrist2000 3 months ago
@lowlypawn Think about this: diamond is PURE carbon. So..., you can burn carbon, don't you? :o)
idaspe 3 months ago
@lowlypawn diamond is made out of carbon, if you heat it up in the presence of oxygen it will burn to form CO2 and water (ideally)
MultiAxian 3 months ago
@MultiAxian Not CO2 and water, only CO2
flimsybop 3 months ago
@flimsybop oh right right... silly me
MultiAxian 3 months ago
@lowlypawn yes
periodicvideos 3 months ago 3
@lowlypawn You can find some cool videos on YT where people burn diamonds, just search 'em. :0)
tmafkap 3 months ago
@lowlypawn Remember a diamond is just carbon atoms arranged in a strong formation.
madjimms 3 months ago
If you got a giant yellow diamond just to record its spectrum and burn it, you might be a scientist.
jakebass74 3 months ago
Turning it into a 'gem stone'. What a waste. I would have looked at it's nitrogen isotope composition!
Webofscience 3 months ago
I've seen a bunch of blue diamonds.... right here in my bowl of Lucky charms! (runs from kids)
arleas 3 months ago
Actually, there's a company in Switzerland that offers to make diamonds out of the ashes of deceased persons.
tmafkap 3 months ago 5
@tmafkap indeed, we showed one of these in a previous video!
periodicvideos 3 months ago
Why are industrial diamonds black?
aluisious 3 months ago
@aluisious because they contain a lot of contaminants
Jack14112 3 months ago
i love your hair XD
madmanKABLAMO 3 months ago
On a similar note, I've seen similar changes in color when you add different elements to Gold. The common ones I've seen are white, red, and green gold. Not sure what is added. I've mostly seen it used on pocket watches where they put intricate designs on the cases.
YZBot 3 months ago
nice haircut prof!
chriskevini 3 months ago
That anonymous buyer was me.
jeff77789 3 months ago
@jeff77789 come, come now jeff77789. As a viewer of periodicvideos. You have to submit that diamond to the professor for experimentation. ;-P
NICKN0RT0N 3 months ago
Oh please, BURN DIAMONDS!
razveck 3 months ago
I can not understand why will someone pay so much for diamonds, gold, other rare materials or elements.
There will not be long until we are able to produce even better materials with great proprieties so all this "rare" materials will have no value or much less value.
electrodacus 3 months ago 3
@electrodacus well, it's rare now, so they're paying for the present value of the material.
MultiAxian 3 months ago
@MultiAxian that is true. But most make this type of investment thinking it will at least keep is value.
electrodacus 3 months ago
@electrodacus in their lifetimes, it probably would.
MultiAxian 3 months ago
@MultiAxian There already synthetic diamond produced and there will be not long until they will exceed the real one as quantity. Less than 10 years.
Also the synthetic is chemically indistinguishable from the natural one so the value will drop to the price of synthetic that is at least hundred of time less.
This synthetic diamonds will soon be used computer microchips since they are an excellent thermal conductor.
electrodacus 3 months ago
@electrodacus yeah, but synthetic diamonds are different from natural diamonds, no matter how many synthetic diamonds you make will not change fact that natural diamonds are natural, and that in itself holds significant value. natural diamond reserves are only going to decrease while consumer demand is always going to stay high and that fact leads to the value of natural diamonds to increase. they are chemically indistinguishable, yes, but that never stopped the market from over-pricing stuff.
MultiAxian 3 months ago
@MultiAxian synthetic are not different as a final product even if they are made in different ways.
You will not be able to distinguish natural from synthetic so you can not charge more since you can not prove that one was natural and one synthetic.
There is not large quantities of synthetic diamonds as of now from what I know but there will not be more until the synthetic will take over :)
See e6dotcom
electrodacus 3 months ago
@electrodacus You are correct. But I would like to add to your statement of: "Also the synthetic is chemically indistinguishable from the natural one"
You're correct, but in most cases, you are not. A lot of natural diamonds do not form so perfectly as synthetic ones, and in most natural diamonds, there are flaws. which is why it's easy to tell a synthetic one, from a natural one, because natural ones come with flaws, or they may not be as transparent. This video is a perfect example.
josan2964 3 months ago
@josan2964 you can create defects in synthetic diamonds if you want there are a lot of synthetic yellow diamonds.
There will not be long until you can arrange each atom so you can make a 100% copy of a natural diamond.
But yes the synthetic can be made perfect and are more useful in industry not so important for jewelery.
The large hadron collider is using synthetic diamonds for some sensors, I'm not that familiar with but just wanted to mention this.
electrodacus 3 months ago
@electrodacus Perfect synthetic diamonds are used in scientific experiments by scientists only. Since diamond has a Mohs rating of 10, it is usually used in cutting purposes. Other synthetic gems are also made like ruby and sapphire, but since they are fairly weak they are only used for laser purposes.
PullarBearBear 3 months ago