500 TON HYDRAULIC PRESS CREATES DIAMOND FROM COAL

We will try to turn graphite into diamond with the help of a 500 ton hydraulic press

[TheKyleBrah]

"Do not try this at home."

Thank you for warning us! We all have Hydraulic Presses and that could have been dangerous

[pingu]

Conclusion: a 500ton hydraulic press and some coal is a good investment

[Bill]

There was an episode of the 1950's TV series " The Adventures of Superman " starring George Reeves
where Superman used his super strength to crush a piece of coal between his palms to make a diamond.
How else do you think he was able to keep up on the mortgage payments on the Fortress of Solitude.

[JellyJaniya]

"don't repeat at home"

*Slowly puts hydraulic press back in pocket*

[OfficiallySnek]

I wonder if those are actually diamonds. He should test them by trying to scratch glass, this way he will be able to confirm that he just didn't make glass from the silica in the pencil lead.

[agathaf.]

The funniest thing is that at the beginning there is a warning not to do this at home, do we look like Phineas and Ferb to create a 500 ton hydraulic press at home?

[BASSMANN]

Well, graphite for writing/drawing is almost always mixed with clay or something, pure one is way too soft. You could get it from an electric engine (brushes), for example. Charcoal also is not the same as coal from mine

[Joseph_]

"Do not repeat at home" ok gonna buy. A road roller

[noneyabidness]

But it takes "trillions and trillions of millennia to make diamond!"

Guy with a small hydraulic press: "Hold my vodka."

[shdwbnndbyyt]

Note that there is another diamond like carbon compound that could form with a slightly different crystal structure... but from what I have read years ago in my book on synthetic gem making, it is very unlikely that you reached the conditions needed. If you did make diamond or the alternative crystal structure the yellow would be from impurities, probably nitrogen. Pencil leads get their hardness from clay, the softest pencil leads are mostly graphite.

[jmmjjmmj]

Only flat earthers could believe this.

[대기레이스]

This is exactly what I want to repeat at home. I have many pencils that need to change to Diamond.

[swistedfilms]

There are diamonds the size of battleships in the Earth's crust. Diamonds are not rare at all, though naturally occurring shiny diamonds are fairly rare. Except for their hardness, diamonds are a useless rock. And gold is not a particularly useful metal, outside of the fact that it won't tarnish. Silver is a better conductor, except for the fact that it will tarnish. Iron is far more useful than gold; it just doesn't happen to be rare because a star will use most of its nuclear fuel creating iron by the end of its life.

Anyhoo, interesting video!

[pbnetto]

Congratulations, you've just created glass from the clay mixed with pencil graphite!

[jpolowin]

I would want to see X-ray crystallography on the substance. You appeared to be starting from very impure graphite, i.e. pencil "leads". I think it's more likely that the yellow stuff was a glass formed from the clay in the starting material.

[SomeoneStoleMyToast]

6:07 this part looks so cool it's like magic how he took that chunk out of nowhere 😍

[lougracia]

That was a great demonstration.
But that 💎 looked smaller than a grain of sand.

[whoever]

Damn, I wish I had been able to help you with those close-up shots using my microscope. I put salt under it and it was amazing! Even better was the time I put weed under the microscope because there are trichomes that look like mini shark fins and ones that look like mini mushrooms. It's a trip.

[dash]

Since diamonds are the strongest gem in the world can you try lonsdaleite it is 58% longer than diamond because it is caused by a meteorite strike so it is not a natural resource of this world. And it's tronger because it has hexagonal lattice, which makes it up 58% sronger

[TsunauticusIV]

Interesting. Love to see people experiment! Love from the USA