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Can Diamonds Melt Gold? (Patreon)

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2017-03-27 15:50:21

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This was actually a fascinating video to make. Firstly I wasnt entirely sure the diamond I had was a real diamond. I bought this diamond off ebay for ~$15. They had good reviews, but would any of them be able to tell a real from fake rough diamond? Virtually all the tests to see if its a real diamond or not rely on things like optical tests. This is hard with an uncut diamond. However the definitive test for if its a diamond or not is..... will it burn!

The temperature of the diamond is almost certainly hot enough to melt the gold, but it just doesnt have a good thermal contact. Next time Im going to push the diamond into the gold using a glass rod. Hopefully that will do it. Also I had a lot of requests for 'can diamonds melt gold beams'. This is possible! The gold I have in this video you can probably cut with scissors. Cutting strips from the gold would be quite easy. Then indeed we might have 'diamonds melting gold beams'!

Hopefully in a week or so I will have the diamond batteries busted video up :-)

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Can burning Diamond melt Gold?

My diamond is now in the air, contributing to global warming! On the bright side, I had grave doubts that what I bought off ebay for ~15 bux was nothing more than cubic zirconia. However the fact the diamond burned so beautifully shows VERY definitively that this was indeed a real diamond.