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You do not know much about making diamond do you?

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ilrw32EKI

>>5149641

If in my high school physics class I had used diamonds instead of tissue in the egg drop, Id have failed. Thats why.

diamond is not an element...

because then nobody would have any privacy

Diamonds are hard, not strong.

Learn the difference.

For a lot of applications, flexibility is a good thing.

According to your logic we should make everything out of diamonds because nothing can break it besides other diamonds, right? So if we make everything out of diamonds everything can destroy anything, it's even worse than it is now!

>>5149672
bumbers faggot, have you heard of them?

>>5149650
Diamond is carbon, carbon is an element.

>>5149686

diamond itself is not a fucking element. It might be made out of a bunch of highly pressurized carbon molecules, but it is not carbon. there is a difference.

>>5149690
Yes. Diamond is carbon. Pretty much pure carbon. It's just that the carbons are arranged in such a way to make it very hard/strong.

>>5149641
A plane made of diamond would be too fucking heavt to fly, tought about that?

>>5149712
no op, but what if we launched the plane out of a much larger plane traveling fast enough that once the diamond plane is released it has enough velocity combined with the power of it's own engines to be traveling fast enough to create the necessary pressure under the wings to have equal it's weight downward? WHAT THEN!!! I'm just bullshitting that would be highly stupid to do even though possible feasable

>>5149722
I'm pretty sure it would just be in space.

>>5149641
>Only diamond can break diamond.

Nope.

>>5149705
>Pretty much pure carbon

It's nothing but carbon. 100%. The carbon molecules are arranged in chains of 4, in the shape of a diamond. That's why it's called diamond.

>>5149641
Every one knows diamond is the strongest metal.

>>5149878
Well it would be really rare to find a diamond that is 100% carbon as almost everything on earth is really a mixture, not pure substances.

>>5149874
my fists can break diamond.

>>5149650
A chemical element is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distinguished by its atomic number.

diamond is not a chemical element. carbon is. diamond is an allotrope of carbon. hurr fucking durr.

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 over 9000 wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with over 9000 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 the hardest metal known to man.

>>5150018
Fuck man.

I was just going to post that.

>>5150018
>diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man

>diamond
>metal

>>5150037
Please tell me you at least read the whole thing.

>>5149878
>assuming 100% pure diamond

>>5150037
>getting the joke
>any year

>getting mad over a joke

>>5150040
Of course.

>>5149641
>Diamond is the toughest chemical element known to exist.
False. Some man-made materials are higher on the Moh's hardness scale.

>Only diamond can break diamond.
False. You meant "scratch". I assure that a piece of lead traveling fast enough can indeed break a diamond into many little pieces.

if you had a diamond car and drove it into a diamond wall, there would be no cushioning of the blow and the force would be transfered to your body. Assume the seatbelt is a regular seatbelt, then it would rip up for body like a cookie cutter, you would be in three perfectly cut pieces spread around your trillion dollar car.

>>5150121
>if you had a diamond car and drove it into a diamond wall, there would be no cushioning of the blow and the force would be transfered to your body.
Except that's wrong.

>>5150121
what if the seatbelt was also made of pure diamond?

A diamond is hard, which means you couldn't scratch it with an iron nail (or anything else short of diamond). It is however very brittle, so you could smash it with a hammer.

Hardness is a particular property, like brittleness or ductility. It has particular connotations and makes it suitable for certain things. It doesn't mean it is indestructible.

This is one of the reasons it's an attractive choice for gemstones. You're far more likely to expose a gemstone ring to things that could scratch it than you are to things that could smash it or melt it or whatever.

Take a diamond and hit it with a hammer, you'll see why.

Try to make a generator out of diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to sleep on a bed made of diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to buy a real diamond, you'll see why.

Try eating diamonds, you'll see why.

Walk on diamonds, you'll see why.

Have sex with diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to staple your papers together with diamonds, you'll see why.

Dry to get drunk on diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to wage a war with nothing but diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to launch something in space with diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to refrigerate your food in diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to power your house with diamonds, you'll see why.

Try to wear pants made of diamonds, you'll see why.

Be Kanye West, you'll see why.

>mfw you all missed the "diamond is an element" joke

>>5149986
Nice wikipedia abstract. It's literally the first fucking line on the "chemical element" article.

Also, everyone who says diamond is an element is just playing with words. Show me the element "diamond" in the periodic table. If you point to carbon, then you're not pointing to diamond, because diamond cannot exist as a single atom, as there isn't diamond without at least enough carbons to form it.

tl;dr diamond isn't an element, it's an array of molecules made of carbon.

>>5150182
OP was just playing, that's obvious. But there's no doubt someone here thinks diamond IS an element.

>>5150043
Was Jason autistic?

>>5150208
His answer would be regarded as unspecific in stats class.

>>5149878
But there are hydrogen atoms bonded to the outer layer of the diamond structure.
Thus, it is not pure.

>>5149879
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>>5149666
This

A diamond plane could easily shatter. Diamond is hard as all hell, but it is brittle.