Cutting Ice With Diamond

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[Alexandry]

... "and that's why the diamonds I bought are an allowable business expense"

[woody]

Copper for comparison would’ve been interesting

[gangstermusic]

in grade 10 our chemistry teacher taught us that some jewelers in the rural areas of our country identify real diamonds by touching them with their tongues, to detect the coldness easily when heat is moved to the diamond because the tongue has sensitive tissues

[BooBaddyBig]

I really want a diamond ice cream scoop now.

[Mayonaiese]

Now I wanna see you cut a diamond with ice

[darkcornholio]

Noted. I now need a heatsink for my pc made of diamond.

[snickerdoghume]

“Diamond is a really good conductor of heat”

This is also one of the weird facts I somehow learnt from a video game

[omarbahrour]

Damn, I knew diamond was hard as fuck, but had no idea about its ability to conduct heat

[dark]

So we need to start making heatsinks out of diamonds.

[TheScientificSpot]

"Do you like my Blade Blade?
Blade my Diamond Blade Blade"

[itTchin]

- What heatsink you use for your PC?
- Water cooler made of diamond.

[olmostgudinaf]

Steel has actually a rather poor thermal conductivity. You stir boiling tea with a spoon and not feel a thing.

[CM-klqh]

It works because:
1) it’s a good conductor of heat.
2) it’s 0.5mm thick.
3) the thin edge translates to high pressure at the point of contact.
If you could generate the same pressure all over the ice while keeping the temperature the same (extremely difficult) the entire block would melt.

[chrisbiebel]

There are some diamond coated non-stick pans for cooking out there and they actually do a better job in searing meat than most metal pans I've used.

[danielparnell]

Need the world's most expensive ice cream scoop made out of this.

[TheTylerRobison]

My ice sculptures are about to get SO NEXT LEVEL!!!

[_zzpza]

I believe this principle is how "diamond testers" work, specifically the ones you see on watch maker forums where someone wants to check that the replacement crystal they bought really is sapphire glass and not regular mineral glass. The tester heats up the tip of the device and then measures the temperature drop when you press it against the material being tested and displays any temperature drop on the LED bar chart. If there's no temperature drop it's mineral glass, if there's a big temperature drop then it's sapphire glass.

[rebeccahorne]

This is so weirdly nostalgic for me. My dad was involved in developing methods for growing industrial diamonds, so there's a chunk of my childhood marked by chips of impure, black charcoally diamond wafers scattered around the kitchen. Cutting ice with it was one of my first introductions to the idea that cold isn't a thing--there's just heat that can travel around and get slurped away.

[zackdaripr]

Fun fact: That isn’t cutting, it’s melting.

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That’s why diamond 3D printing nozzles are king!