Scientists have revolutionized diamond synthesis with a groundbreaking method that creates diamonds at room temperature and pressure.

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    1 month ago

    If you were thinking of reading the article, know first that the picture of the diamond shown above is bullshit. This process can only produce microscopic films of diamond.

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    So diamond tipped tools will be cheap now, right? RIGHT?!?

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        They’ll be the same price because industrial diamonds aren’t something new and were incredibly cheap already.

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        nah, they’ll increase in price, but for more of the same reason.

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      That ended when people realized about blood-diamonds. But this should certainly accelerate their downfall.