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Diamonds are just compacted carbon. If you could create a device that detected dense carbon objects, then it could find diamonds.
by mullen 7y ago
Diamonds are just compacted carbon. If you could create a device that detected dense carbon objects, then it could find diamonds.
- ls612 7y agoThis hypothetical device would also find every living organism around it as well so it would be kinda useless.
- rc_hadoken 7y agoI'm not a scientist but surely theres a threshold density for diamonds that is far above rocks/living objects?
- dragonwriter 7y ago> surely theres a threshold density for diamonds that is far above rocks Nope, diamond is 3.51g/cm³, some rocks are in the same density range.
- Florin_Andrei 7y agoDiamond's density is 3.5 g/cm3, nothing special.
- brippalcharrid 7y agoDensity of rocks seems to top out around 3.2 g/cm³[0], but if you could find a way of scanning for material that was 99%+ Carbon and which had the density of diamond (3.51 g/cm³) and you could detect very small buried items, then that might be a start. https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Exemplars_and_Case_Studies/Exemplars/Geology/Density_of_Rocks_and_Soils https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Exemplars_an...
- bnegreve 7y agoAnd since carbon is the 4th most frequent atom in the universe, you would also find a whole bunch of not-so-interesting things.