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A diamond is forever, even if your climate is not. Using diamonds for carbon sequestration seems like the wrong approach, though.

• officialjunk 8y ago
  diamonds can burn, and temperatures reached in house fires are sufficiently hot enough to burn diamonds. cubic zirconia, on the other hand, will survive a house fire.
  • caf 8y ago
    My experience of a housefire is that there is far more water and smoke damage to contents than heat.
    • KozmoNau7 8y ago
      That depends on the response time of the firefighters, ie. how long the fire is allowed to rage. If it's an old house, there is going to be a bit more "stuff" in the wallpaper and furniture. Airborne cooking grease in the kitchen, and as disgusting as it sounds, human sweat and grease in the soft furniture. A well-used armchair with a decade or two under its belt is going to go up in flames disturbingly fast when it catches on fire. Depending on oxygen availability, you're right that smoke will do most of the initial damage, but as soon as the windows blow out, things heat up dramatically.