Today’s Fun Fact:
You can make diamonds from peanut butter. Because diamonds are made entirely of carbon, scientists have successfully crushed peanut butter under extreme hydraulic pressure to strip away the oxygen and hydrogen, leaving behind pure carbon diamonds.
“You” is the key word. That means “me”, not “some person, somewhere”.
It doesn’t seem that “hydraulic” would be required. It’s probably convenient, but doesn’t seem necessary. “extreme” is vague. Do you think adding jelly to the mix will affect anything?
“For Science!” is becoming a catch phrase my werewolves utter before doing something totally insane. Let life imitate art…
I’m hungry (this is lunchtime science), so I’m going to start with a pretty wimpy version of extreme – but it is a sandwich press (and waffle iron).
I think more pressure is needed. On to a tool designed specifically to exert pressure.
As you can see by the main picture, this tool has a grievous fault: There are holes in the bottom. I saw no evidence of diamond around the edges.
There are other tools that exert pressure.
It’s hard to tell if there are any diamonds in there or not. So I ate it. There was some grit, but it was probably something, toxic no doubt, from the jaws of the vice. Might have been diamonds, though.
Next time I go shooting, I’ll take a (plastic) jar of peanut butter. Maybe three. It wouldn’t be science unless we tried 9mm, .45, and 5.56, right?
Update: Is it just me or does “A watery tart with a press is no basis for extreme hydraulic pressure” come to mind?
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