A German geologist has made a diamond from a very unusual substance, one you may find in your kitchen! PEANUT BUTTER!
Usually used as a tasty spread on toast or to create a yummy sandwich, peanut butter has proven that it can be used to make something that is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Whilst trying to mimic the high temperature and pressure conditions in the Earth’s lower mantle, geologist Dan Frost has stumbled across many interesting ways to make diamonds – including using peanut butter.
Diamonds are made of simple carbon atoms which are found in every living thing and every type of food we eat, which encouraged Dan to attempt his experiment, using peanut butter instead of rocks.
The experiment was a success although the hydrogen that is bonded to the carbon in peanut butter makes the process a little trickier (or stickier?) It is a very slow transformation and it takes weeks to make a 2 or 3 millimetre diamond from peanut butter. But worth it!
Article written by D Mulhern
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Oh my …..
Awesome
woah tahts pretty cool
that is amazing I would love to do that :0
teach me. Teach me NOW!
:0
Wow that’s so interesting and amazing
Umm, Let me get my peanut butter… : ) LOL
Awesome as
wow that would be yummy
i am allergic 🙁
HOW DID HE DO THAT????????????????????????!
That is so amazing!
mmm yummy
cool but i am alergic to it but that is preaty cool i wonder if you
could make any thing else with it like a modle car or a red cristl
that would be so cool if you could you could try makeing a space
ship out of honey.
I want that Diamond!!!
Like now!!!
Gimme that diamond!
COOLEST THING EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats so strange i want that peanut butter diamond
I wanna make one!
Wwwhhhaaatt! That is soooooo crazy! I sooo want to do that! ?
Hi other Lydia (my name is Lydia too!)
I agree that it is crazy!
Do you like Yogi Bear?
that is amazing
Someone could choke on a dymand that is just crazy! is the person eating the penut butter off the dymand or eating the whole thing?