• sploosh@lemmy.world
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      There’s nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There’s more than a few things wrong with Debeers

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        yeah, like the heat conduction thing is super cool, and the ability to scratch literally anything, while not particularly useful, is still pretty neat

        I bet once diamonds get cheap enough CPU manufacturers will start using them as heat spreaders on their high end chips

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          Scratching things is super useful. We have so many tools based on exactly that principle

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            35 minutes ago

            Yes, there just isn’t all that much use I would get from it personally, and I think diamond tools are already not all that expensive.

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      The rock is quite useful as an industrial tool. It’s when you cut it in to a fancy shape and wear it that it’s pretty useless.

      We use diamonds to test the hardness of materials, grind really hard things smaller, orient and locate specialized cutting tools, and cut through really hard things. Hell we sell garnet by the barrel to help cut through regular materials. Orderly carbon or, in many cases orderly aluminum oxide, is something we need a lot of. The price going down on those is actually good for manufacturing.

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        21 hours ago

        But the industrial rocks are 90% manmade, the stonesetter diamonds were mined with slave labour or close to it, and people probably died for them.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        23 hours ago

        I own twns of thousands of diamonds. most of them are embedded in metal plates and I use them to sharpen chisels. A few are on little wheels I use to cut steel.