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Candle flames contain millions of tiny diamonds
- yread 15y agoI am more surprised it contains fullerenic particles ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene or familiarly buckyballs) as well.
- ph0rque 15y agoIt actually makes sense that the carbon atoms would recombine to form every form of carbon in the high temperature of the flame before pairing off with an oxygen atom or two and flying off as CO or CO2.
- possibilistic 15y agoThis is not something I would have expected, but it makes sense. All possible reactions between reactants occur, but the kinetic or thermodynamic products are the significant ones we look for and isolate.
- tel 15y agoThis is astoundingly bad scientific writing. I'm actually in awe.
- vl 15y agoThis article has distinct smell of automatic or computer-assisted translation all over it.
- sixtofour 15y agoOr even just plain human translation, which was my first thought. It also sounds a little promotional.
- bh42222 15y agoThat's physorg for you, at least this article is based on something (I hope!) true.
- ChuckMcM 15y agoYes, it is a poor {A}I's best guess as to what the paper said. The actual paper can be found here: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/CC/c0cc05785a http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/CC/c0cc05... If you're at a university that can get past the paywall you can read it for free otherwise they want 32 euros for it. The experimental setup seemed susceptible to aliasing (which is to say detecting one type of carbon when another was present) and the inability to extract the material measured makes cross checking the sensor difficult.
- blackRust 15y agoEveryone is so quick to criticise. It's a rip-off from the University press release which can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,72748,en.html http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,72748,en...
- grantlmiller 15y ago"A million fucking diamonds Michael!" -Lindsay Bluth Fünke
- aneth 15y agoNow the question is, how can De Beers extend their extorted monopoly to all flame?
- reitzensteinm 15y agoThey're probably working on a candle diamond detector right now.