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Melting The Diamond

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So much for “diamonds are forever.” Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have taken diamond, the hardest known natural material on Earth, and melted it into a puddle.

Diamond isn’t easy to melt, which is why the scientists used Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest X-ray generator, to subject tiny squares of diamond, only a few nanometers thick, to pressures more than 10 million times the atmosphere’s pressure at sea level.

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who would want to pee now??????

as directed from DIGG

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dreaming of a BMW with a BW

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what makes this new model especially interesting form a technological view is the presence of a Flexray chip.

saw it on DIGG

source : http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/09/flexray_in_2007_bmw_x5/

  
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