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Is there a way to fuse diamond dust and make 1 large chunk.

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Ishmael

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After grinding and grittng some loose diamonds I ended up with a large chunk of diamond dust it' roughly 2 grams worth. Is there someway to put it all together and turn it into one stone?
 
Haha, no. Best I would suggest is put some superglue on a plain ring and roll it in your diamond dust - might cut a finger to shreds though.
 
Use glue and make it like particle board.
 
2 grams = 10 carat. Wow - you are rich.
Go to gym and get really strong and squeeze the dust like superman. It helps to raise the temperature, so fly into an erupting volcano.
 
Garry H (Cut Nut) said:
2 grams = 10 carat. Wow - you are rich.
Go to gym and get really strong and squeeze the dust like superman. It helps to raise the temperature, so fly into an erupting volcano.
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Wow, what did I say to poss you off, I asked a legit question
 
Seriously it is.
What' the point of not questioning things.
 
The answer is "no". Among other things, you would need 3 billion years and a volcano or some likely tens of millions of dollars worth of lab equipment, a payroll of scientists and technicians and several years.
 
Ishmael said:
Garry H (Cut Nut) said:
2 grams = 10 carat. Wow - you are rich.
Go to gym and get really strong and squeeze the dust like superman. It helps to raise the temperature, so fly into an erupting volcano.
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Wow, what did I say to poss you off, I asked a legit question
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Ignore @Garry H (Cut Nut). He gave a terrible answer. Most volcanic flows only reach 875 degrees Celsius. Diamond formation requires 1050 degrees Celsius so you'd have to find basalt lava, specifically. That means taking a trip to Kilauea in the holiday season (very expensive) with no guarantee you'll find subduction occurring along convergent plate boundaries.
 
Do other nations have the saying "taking the Mickey"
Sorry OP, I was taking the Mickey.
Id it could be done easily then everyone would grind up little diamonds and make huge ones.
Double diamond weight and price goes up by around 4X
so it is a kinda dumb question
 
John Pollard said:
Ignore @Garry H (Cut Nut). He gave a terrible answer. Most volcanic flows only reach 875 degrees Celsius. Diamond formation requires 1050 degrees Celsius so you'd have to find basalt lava, specifically. That means taking a trip to Kilauea in the holiday season (very expensive) with no guarantee you'll find subduction occurring along convergent plate boundaries.
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Well, you would have to rent a boat too. Because of the shifting lava flow, I don't think you could get close enough any more to even test it.

Although it is super cool and very humbling to watch new landmass in formation. Spiritual moment, even
 
whitewave said:
Well, you would have to rent a boat too.
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The volcano instructions were for superman. No boat required, unless you ran into that awful kryptonite island from Superman Returns.

Although it is super cool and very humbling to watch new landmass in formation. Spiritual moment, even
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In all sincerity, that's on my bucket list.
 
John Pollard said:
The volcano instructions were for superman. No boat required, unless you ran into that awful kryptonite island from Superman Returns.


In all sincerity, that's on my bucket list.
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:P2

I only went once-- Hawaiian cruise so the captain turned the boat both ways so everyone could have the experience. The on board Hawaiian ambassasor was chanting to Goddess Pele and DH and I were out on our balcony. It truly brought tears to my eyes and was very emotional. But I get touched deeply by things like that...
 
Ishmael said:
After grinding and grittng some loose diamonds I ended up with a large chunk of diamond dust it' roughly 2 grams worth. Is there someway to put it all together and turn it into one stone?
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Pics??? how much did you spent on tools?
 
Ishmael said:
Wow, what did I say to poss you off, I asked a legit question
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"To take the mickey out of someone is an idiom used largely outside of the United States. It means to tease or make fun of someone. It is usually meant in a lighthearted or fun manner, not to ridicule or bash."
As opposed to taking the p*ss
 
Showing my ignorance here, but how do they make those "cremation" diamonds?
 
Starfacet said:
Showing my ignorance here, but how do they make those "cremation" diamonds?
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Because diamonds are carbon based and so are we, they use some of your carbon (ashes) or even hair to grow a diamond. They are growing real diamonds using the current technology and it takes a few months to grow one and the cost - more than $20,000 for a 1 carat diamond which takes 9 months. They they cut it for you and set it into Jewelry. Pretty cool.
 
Interesting! Thanks, Bron, but no diamond dust is used in the making of these stones? Oh well!
 
Does anyone know how they source the carbon for HPHT diamonds? Seems like diamond dust might be a good source.

The presses they use are bigger than some houses, tho.
 
ChristineRose said:
Does anyone know how they source the carbon for HPHT diamonds? Seems like diamond dust might be a good source.
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It requires a natural diamond seed, along with sourced carbon and a metal catalyst. The source-carbon is heated and dissolved along with the catalyst. That carbon-metal mix is applied to the natural seed, which serves as a template. The mix recrystallizes as synthetic diamond on top of the seed. And yes, both the temperature and pressure (indeed, presses the size of a house) are rather insane. The amount of energy required to drive this process could power a city.

Niel said:
Well because that’s a scam
https://www.pricescope.com/communit...t-of-cremains-anyone-do-this-need-info.87521/
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Thanks for linking that thread. In the ensuing decade since their cover was blown a number of similar companies have claimed to do this too. None I'm aware of have been able to scientifically verify the resulting synthesis actually included their customers' pet or parents (or whomever) in the resulting product. Caveat emptor.
 
The Swedish Company I located to use here in Australia (this is what my mum wants to happen with one for each the girls - dad wants his to go into space ) uses a diamond seed and your ashes or hair. You can have an Amber colour (apparently what ordinarily gets produced by their process) or for more $$$ green, red, blue or white - for these other colours they use other elements. There’s no doubt they can produce the diamonds but I’m not convinced that they actually “use” your ashes or hair! I still think is cool.
 
Bron357 said:
The Swedish Company I located to use here in Australia (this is what my mum wants to happen with one for each the girls - dad wants his to go into space ) uses a diamond seed and your ashes or hair. You can have an Amber colour (apparently what ordinarily gets produced by their process) or for more $$$ green, red, blue or white - for these other colours they use other elements. There’s no doubt they can produce the diamonds but I’m not convinced that they actually “use” your ashes or hair! I still think is cool.
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That old thread quoted above is a good resource. Legit diamond makers came on there to say they had experimented with hair and ashes and the resulting diamond was an ugly mess. Hair and ashes are not even half carbon, and contra CSI there is no way test a stone and find DNA in it. As a management accountant I can tell you that there are many ways to document the process and make it clear that they were doing it, if they were. Basically you write everything down and hire an independent auditor to poke around and look at every stage of the process and at your records. They'll do it for kosher soy sauce--that they aren't even willing to do that closes the case for me.

Stones are grown amber, yellow, or blue, with amber being much easier to grow. Other colors are made by treating the stones and are similar to the treatments used on mined stones. The legit growers are barely bothering with the colors at this point--interesting since of course nice colored natural stones are astronomically more expensive than whites.
 
Hmmm, this has turned into a very interesting thread o_O!
 
What an interesting thread....I second the Epoxy....or Krazy glue, it dries a little clearer for me.
 
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