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DIY Diamonds: An American Professor Finds a Way to Make Gems at His Lab
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Jagdish "Jay" Narayan, a North Carolina State University professor, has found a way to make diamonds in his lab. According to a piece in WRAL-Tech Wire, Narayan, a Distinguished Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, said his Q-carbon diamonds would cost consumers about one tenth of the price of natural diamonds.
Nayaran's research team uses a machine that converts carbon tablets into diamonds at 5,000 degrees Kelvin (more than 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit) and at pressures 20,000 times normal air pressure.
However, diamond companies can rest easy, for now: Narayan has been able to create the diamonds only on a microscopic level, so fat. Narayan is quoted in the piece as saying: "It’s not easy to, as we call it, fool Mother Nature. We have to scale up, like put these materials over a large area and do it economically."
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