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Destroying Diamonds

5614
in Applied Chemistry

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yeah, the link to that was heating the diamond, you could nuke a diamond to melt it, although hitting it with a hammer sounds a better idea!

as a side note to what 5614 was saying when lightning hits sand it turns it into glass so you get cool traces and wildlooking glass sculptures. They are called Fulgurites and is where the silicon is super heated to 2950oF and forms glassy SiO2.

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as a side note to what 5614 was saying when lightning hits sand it turns it into glass so you get cool traces and wildlooking glass sculptures. They are called Fulgurites and is where the silicon is super heated to 2950oF and forms glassy SiO2.
so with a tesla coil, can you make 'glass' from sand?
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