Diamonds aren't nearly as rare as everyone has been led to believe, certainly not in the modern age of mass mining and lab-created. A literal diamond cartel controls the supply market that sets prices for diamond jewelry, hence the exorbitant prices. If diamonds were as rare or as expensive as the jewlery store wants you to think they are, a diamond coated drill bit would cost north of $1,000 each, not $10. Your $20k wedding ring is made of a couple hundred dollars of materials, which is why anyone who tries to sell/pawn their precious ring finds themselves seriously disappointed by the offers they receive. They lose 90% of their value the instant you purchase them.
I do agree with your reply, but a diamond-coated drill bit uses very dirty, stained small daimonds, which will drastically lower the diamond's price, probably to even cents.
And they're trying to market the idea that synthetic diamonds are fake. They're as much diamonds as the ice cubes in your freezer are ice. No one questions that since ice cubes didn't come from a naturally frozen lake they aren't real. To them, it's the blood in blood diamonds that give them value I guess.
No matter what the system is, it is expensive because there are enough stupid people who are willing to throw away all that money for jewelry, which serves no purpose other than vanity.
That was my thought this whole time...I mean, what do you do with it in future generations? Or maybe they'll eventually end up with royal displays of 'our family tree but in diamond-necklace form'? It's neat but weird, yeah. 😕 Dunno that I'd WEAR one, but whatever makes people happy.
For those wondering, the "molten metal alloy" used as the flux in HTHP hydrothermal synthesis is usually platinum and other platinum group metals. Platinum is one of the most common fluxes used in hydrothermal synthesis. Silicon is also used, particularly for diamond synthesis.
I've been researching gemstone synthesis for a while, hoping to figure out some "DIY"-safe methods for synthesis in my garage. My research has focused on ruby synthesis, since my goal is to create 1L soda bottle -sized gems for an accent lighting idea I'm kind of obsessed with. But I've also looked into emerald and diamond because they're adjacent and there's a lot more information published about them, and I've looked into other minerals such as lazulite. The hardest parts for any HTHP or hydrothermal synthesis are identifying the best flux and getting a pressure vessel that can withstand the pressures involved. For corundum and emerald synthesis you need about 200 Mpa or roughly 30,000 PSI of pressure. Steel pressure vessels are used for commercial synthesis. For diamond you need, as the video said, 5.5 Gpa, or in the neighborhood of 80,000 PSI. The only way to get that kind of pressure is in what's called an "anvil" - basically 6 pyramids packed together to form a cube, each pyramid missing its top so there's a void in the center of the cube where your graphite goes and your diamond comes out. I've looked into alternatives. Flame Fusion is useful for ruby, it's fast and effective, but stone quality is low and size is small and the apparatus is not easy to buy or DIY. There is no flame fusion alternative for diamond, but chemical vapor deposition is becoming more and more common and could be adapted to a DIY process, albeit only for people with a lot of money.
@@St0RM33 YES! Good eye! Anvil shape and flux ingredients are the two most trade secret parameters that different companies adjust for their own processes.
I saw the thumbnail before I saw the title. Thumbnail: "Let's make a diamond!" Title: "How to Turn Dead People into Diamonds" Me: "Well that escalated quickly."
The amount of energy needed still means, they are likely worse for the planet (and thus humanity overall) than the mines. Just less directly payed in blood.
@@conepictures Hey you know what's crazy? We don't need to get the energy in ways that are awful. We could build better energy generation infrastructure, and it's something we should be doing anyway. We probably can't, however, make the mines any better.
It's cheaper to make diamonds from anthracite or graphite than to separate the carbon from human corpses. Also you wont exactly make bank from it. Lab grown diamonds sell for 20-40% less than natural diamonds of the same weight and cut, despite being purer and better looking than natural diamonds. That's quite a bit of money still, but the cost of operating the machinery, maintenance, utilities, plus the debt from the initial purchase makes it hard work to make a living. Because diamonds have industrial uses you can succeed at making a living if you market well, but that relies on market demand just like any other product.
Technically, graphite is thermodynamically more stable than diamond, so diamond will eventually decay into graphite. Therefore, diamond isn't forever, graphite is.
The video neglects to mention one of the most interesting properties of synthetic HPHT and CVD diamonds - they often glow in the dark. Boron in HPHT diamonds can induce phosphorescence, typically appearing as blue or white afterglow. This is especially common in colorless to near-colorless HPHT synthetics. Also, nitrogen-Boron donor-acceptor pairs: The interaction between substitutional nitrogen and boron atoms (NB pairs) in the diamond lattice can result in a broad blue-green phosphorescence band. Additionally nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in pink to red HPHT synthetic diamonds also cause it with NV defect centers created during post-growth treatment resulting in orange or red phosphorescence. Anomalous luminescence occurs in natural diamond sometimes as well, but is significantly rarer.
I'm skeptical that ashes, which are the famous remains after burning all the carbon, contain any carbon at all. Especially when buddy says the "extracted carbon" is mixed with graphite. The process is the same if you leave out the alleged human carbon.
Good point but it looks like there is some carbon. In the video it was only a few grams they were able to get out of the ashes, presumably from incomplete reactions or byproducts with carbon in them. It also strikes me as strange that they mixed graphite in. Edit, just looked it up and Calcium Carbonate is one of the primary components of organic ashes.
I think most of the actual carbon in the human body is released during cremation in the form of CO2 gas. But probably there is a little left behind in the ashes.
Back in chemistry class, our teacher pointed out that diamonds are in fact unstable and those strong bonds break spontaneously - just very, very slowly. So "diamonds are forever" is actually a lie. Observe one for a few billion years and you'll see it decay. 😂
I am currently propagating pathos that was my grandfather before he died. The carbon in that plant came from my grandfather, grandmother and others in my family. It’s going to cost me about $20 per person to give my cousins a living reminder of our grandfather that contains carbon directly from him, just like a diamond. Moral of the story, House plants do the same thing and they’re cheaper by magnitudes!!!
I won't scatter you sorrows to the heartless Sea I will always be with you Plant your roots in me I won't see you end as ashes You're All Diamonds -The Man who Solds the World.
I'm really not a fan of ads masquerading as science videos. The process of making diamonds is very interesting but it feels like native advertising here, making sure to hit all the selling points of the product. Felt rather light on actual science leaving me with many questions. Such as: what is the diamond seed? Is it a natural diamond? Manufactured? What are its specifications.
Sister has had my father and stepfather turned into diamonds. The process has improved in the years between do my stepfather ended up larger than my father. She plans to do this with my mother when she passes.
A college friend of mine was doing postgraduate work on making diamonds in the 1990s. 10 years later he had a very rare form of lung cancer that could have only come from the lab where he had been doing that work. The cancer eventually killed him. They never had a viable, economical process.
I'm planning on this after my demise. Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has been my theme song for decades. It will be my way to exist in perpetuity. I'll keep shining on...
Personally, I want to go back into the food chain as fast as possible after I die. No chemicals, no expensive caskets or cremations. Put me in the ground/water as I am, and let nature take it's coarse.
Human composting is legal in at least 6 states in America. Sky burial in Tibet is a thing too, but it would be costly to ship your corpse to Tibet, then dragged up a mountain to be cut up and fed to vultures. We Americans as a whole are far too squeamish to allow THAT here in America. There is also the matter of cultural appropriation. Good luck. Whatever you decide, put it in a will or at least a letter of instruction.
i'm curious about how much ash is required? my mom passed just over two months ago and this has me very curious about creating a unique tribute to honour her memory ETA- looked up the company and a quick estimate $15K for a clear 1K heart shaped diamond but no quantity required is described
*"i'm curious about how much ash is required?"* Zero. *"but no quantity required is described"* That's because they don't need any. They will trash whatever you give them, and use pure graphite. You are happy, they are happy, everyone is happy.
Nice video, I wish you could have explained a few more things, like where do they get the template/guide from? how is that made, and is it becoming part of the new diamond and therefore must be replaced everytime?
Ultrapure carbon is actually made from sugar - it's called "sugar charcoal". The reason sugar is used is because simple sugars are pure hydrocarbons and also can be recrystallized to remove any organic impurities. The plants already had to work very hard to catenate all the carbon atoms into such energetic molecules (the energy density if suscrose is comparable to gasoline and people actually use it as a solid rocket fuel (!)). To make carbon, just pour a little concentrated sulfuric acid over a white sugar cube and observe... the acid will dehydrate the hydrocarbon (rip off all the hydroxyl group and form water) leaving behind the carbon backbode. The sugar cube will grow into a black steaming mass consisting basically of carbon, water, sulfurous acid and some remaining sulfuric. All this can be washed out and after drying you will have pretty much pure carbon. It's not economical to be used for BBQ (it's too good - just use wood charcoal) but it's great as a lab reagent (e.g. for carbothermic reductions).
I read about growing diamonds back in the 90's. There were 2 companies using different technic to trying to make diamond. They were not able to make diamonds yet at the time.
As beautiful as they may come out, I can only imagine the amount of energy and materials it takes to create a diamond. Adding to one’s carbon footprint… no pun intended. Everyone that knows me knows that my death request is to be turned into compost. Compost my body and feed it to a forest! We’ve all used Earth for food and energy. Let’s replace it!
I agree 100% Such a misuse of resources all for vanity's sake but I suppose it's better than blood diamonds and the harms of the industry. I too will be buried naturally, no additives, naked or just in a shroud. I'll have my loved ones bury a seed of a native tree over my body so that my elements can feed that tree and become part of its makeup. In this way, provide a tangible my loved ones can visit and touch.
Awesome video, thank you very much. I've wanted to stipulate in my will that I want this done with my cremains, now just gotta save up for it so whoever ends up with my end-of-life plans can afford to get it done.
Make sure they don't skimp ya body! Your body is made of nearly 18.5% carbon! So me being 100 pounds equals... Well... Easy math, 37 pounds of Carbon! Just playing. I have around 18.5 pounds of carbon, and I am a scrawny mofo so let us knock it down. That means 15 pounds of diamonds no? Maybe there are ineffencies... So they better give you a five pound diamond at least! Jokes aside as someone terminally ill I wish I could afford this myself. I don't know what will happen as dying is expensive, and I am broke.
@@dianapennepacker6854 Contact local museums of science/industry and ask them to foot the bill for your diamondization in return for getting to display you? I've seen a lot of mineral displays in various museums but never a "this was made out of a human" diamond. Might could get Eterneva to chip in a bit because that would be good advertising, too.
when i was in 2nd grade someone had told me that diamonds are formed from buried coal. so i took a bunch of charcoal and buried it in our backyard. imagine my disappointment when there were no sparkling diamonds when i dug up the spot a few months later. i have already told everyone in my family that after i die. i want to be cremated and turned into a diamond, set in a ring and passed from generation to generation as a family heirloom.
So interesting! Now I wonder, how much money did it cost to produce that human made die-mond versus a natural diamonds extracted from earth? How could this kind of human made diamonds alter the price of diamond jewelry?
The reason I'd want lab diamonds over natural, is it's unlikely anyone is going to get killed making lab diamonds but mining is so dangerous, and ruins the land.
Lab made diamonds are much cheaper than natural ones due to price manipulation by diamond companies. Lab made are also more pure, can have very specific impurities to make them shine certain colors, as customizable as you want.
There is an acoustic signature for every material and more specifically every object. Heat and pressure are useful ways to substitute for not exactly understanding the acoustic forces which contribute to the formation of carbon and their organization into materials such as diamond... If anyone is looking for someone to assist them in understanding how materials are composed by objects tunneling into acoustic wells, please contact me with any questions.
Great video! Really interested what kind of alloy is used for this. Not the exact kind (that would probably be a trade secret), but at least some components of it.
i would think that iron, nickel, platinum or cobalt can be used as they are catalyst to make graphite at a lower temperature and carbon is quite soluble in them. i think iron would be a good one to try as carbon has a very high solubility in iron and iron carbide(carbon transfer?) has a lower melting point than 1400C. i could be wrong though.
Diamonds aren't some magic indestructible material. Their fracture toughness is very low and cannot take impact load. One hammer strike and diamond will be broken.
How come this video gives (at 10:55) an idea that there are no isotope C12 in either natural or synthetic diamond? Elsewhere in nature C12 is the most common isotope, 98,9% of all carbon, then why not in diamonds?
Hey Joe , has anyone told you your voice sounds really similar to Kevin Conroy the voice of batman ? At least I see it that way, very informative video btw 💎
Great video! Have you heard about the diamond chemical vapor deposition? That's a completely different process than high-pressure/high-temperature, and is a interesting way to produce electronic-grade diamond by using methane and hydrogen :)
If we managed to make a diamond out of pure Carbon 14, I wonder what it would look like after a few thousand years of decay. Would it look porous? Would it make shiny-looking bubbles? Or would it just get cloudy?
There are very good reasons to challenge diamonds made out of human cremated remains. The main issue is: The carbon extracted from cremation remains are not the needed quality needed to grow diamonds in presses. The main source of carbon used to grow diamonds is Brazil. If you try to do it out of cremated remains, it’s simply not working the way those scam companies are claiming.
I just checked Wikipedia, and it says that the heaviest synthetic diamond ever made weighs six grams. (The heaviest natural diamond ever found weighed 633 grams.)
"that's a beautiful necklace."
-"Thanks, it was my mom!"
"Your moms?"
-"No, just the one."
LOL!
Better joke was done in Ozark.
Family Jewels
😂 A+
"No, my dad was monogamous."
-"Huh?"
"It means their marriage was one man and one woman. He didn't have a harem."
"Darling, who are you wearing, you look stunning in those rocks!!"
"Oh, these old things? These are just Fred and Mary, yes."
"Shine bright like a diamond" has a new meaning now
Diamond Doesn't Shine, It Reflects
-Random Meme
@@SHATOSHI123 It shines when it's burning.
Why did Rihanna sing in my head 😂
@@FeriqBV Youre beautiful like diamonds in the sky
@@SHATOSHI123 like all things apart from Radium.
When I grow up, I wanna be a diamond.
And apparently you can!
or just co2
shine bright like a diamond
...just not the ones they burn up in experiments, right?
That'll be way too hard
Diamonds aren't nearly as rare as everyone has been led to believe, certainly not in the modern age of mass mining and lab-created. A literal diamond cartel controls the supply market that sets prices for diamond jewelry, hence the exorbitant prices. If diamonds were as rare or as expensive as the jewlery store wants you to think they are, a diamond coated drill bit would cost north of $1,000 each, not $10. Your $20k wedding ring is made of a couple hundred dollars of materials, which is why anyone who tries to sell/pawn their precious ring finds themselves seriously disappointed by the offers they receive. They lose 90% of their value the instant you purchase them.
I do agree with your reply, but a diamond-coated drill bit uses very dirty, stained small daimonds, which will drastically lower the diamond's price, probably to even cents.
And they're trying to market the idea that synthetic diamonds are fake. They're as much diamonds as the ice cubes in your freezer are ice. No one questions that since ice cubes didn't come from a naturally frozen lake they aren't real. To them, it's the blood in blood diamonds that give them value I guess.
@@bobthecomputerguy To them, it's the profitability of blood diamonds that gives them value
No matter what the system is, it is expensive because there are enough stupid people who are willing to throw away all that money for jewelry, which serves no purpose other than vanity.
Truth
A friend did this for his family when his father passed. Kinda cool, kinda weird.
Feels Chaotic but Neutral act
That was my thought this whole time...I mean, what do you do with it in future generations? Or maybe they'll eventually end up with royal displays of 'our family tree but in diamond-necklace form'? It's neat but weird, yeah. 😕 Dunno that I'd WEAR one, but whatever makes people happy.
I would love to have my diamond thrown in the ocean and be a part of earth's evolution n@EShirako
For those wondering, the "molten metal alloy" used as the flux in HTHP hydrothermal synthesis is usually platinum and other platinum group metals. Platinum is one of the most common fluxes used in hydrothermal synthesis. Silicon is also used, particularly for diamond synthesis.
I've been researching gemstone synthesis for a while, hoping to figure out some "DIY"-safe methods for synthesis in my garage. My research has focused on ruby synthesis, since my goal is to create 1L soda bottle -sized gems for an accent lighting idea I'm kind of obsessed with. But I've also looked into emerald and diamond because they're adjacent and there's a lot more information published about them, and I've looked into other minerals such as lazulite.
The hardest parts for any HTHP or hydrothermal synthesis are identifying the best flux and getting a pressure vessel that can withstand the pressures involved. For corundum and emerald synthesis you need about 200 Mpa or roughly 30,000 PSI of pressure. Steel pressure vessels are used for commercial synthesis. For diamond you need, as the video said, 5.5 Gpa, or in the neighborhood of 80,000 PSI. The only way to get that kind of pressure is in what's called an "anvil" - basically 6 pyramids packed together to form a cube, each pyramid missing its top so there's a void in the center of the cube where your graphite goes and your diamond comes out.
I've looked into alternatives. Flame Fusion is useful for ruby, it's fast and effective, but stone quality is low and size is small and the apparatus is not easy to buy or DIY. There is no flame fusion alternative for diamond, but chemical vapor deposition is becoming more and more common and could be adapted to a DIY process, albeit only for people with a lot of money.
All the best
@@pufthemajicdragon in the video they form a "disc" through a cylinder so it's different kind of anvil than the traditional one you talk about
@@pufthemajicdragon awesome
@@St0RM33 YES! Good eye! Anvil shape and flux ingredients are the two most trade secret parameters that different companies adjust for their own processes.
I saw the thumbnail before I saw the title.
Thumbnail: "Let's make a diamond!"
Title: "How to Turn Dead People into Diamonds"
Me: "Well that escalated quickly."
Changed Title :(
@@f5203I guess yt didn't like it
@@FeriqBV include works like "dead" in your title ==> Less RUclips revenue
@@f5203 Gotta use the famous "unalive" 🤢
NIle Red did the burning diamonds experiment and made the worlds most expensive carbonated water.
This video deserved a mention of the awful conditions in which natural diamonds are mined. Synthetic diamonds are not paid for in blood.
The amount of energy needed still means, they are likely worse for the planet (and thus humanity overall) than the mines. Just less directly payed in blood.
Well... maybe these ones
@@conepictures Hey you know what's crazy?
We don't need to get the energy in ways that are awful. We could build better energy generation infrastructure, and it's something we should be doing anyway.
We probably can't, however, make the mines any better.
@@conepictures I’d like to see the actual data on that.
This encourages me to start unliving people to make Diamonds for a living, Thanks for the inspiration to finally do so
Let me join you bro .Lol
so what do u do for a living?
i 'unlive' people pretty laid back job would recommend
@@liam78587 dead2diamond call center💀😂
It's cheaper to make diamonds from anthracite or graphite than to separate the carbon from human corpses. Also you wont exactly make bank from it. Lab grown diamonds sell for 20-40% less than natural diamonds of the same weight and cut, despite being purer and better looking than natural diamonds. That's quite a bit of money still, but the cost of operating the machinery, maintenance, utilities, plus the debt from the initial purchase makes it hard work to make a living. Because diamonds have industrial uses you can succeed at making a living if you market well, but that relies on market demand just like any other product.
@@MoorganHart Plus, you know, all the murder and stuff.
I have always wondered how to turn a corpse into a diamond. Thanks Joe
My attempts never work out. Not sure what I'm doing wrong
why tho
@@vierte_it's science - if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Happy hunting.
Life goal: turning your loved ones into diamonds, and turning your enemies into soda water
And turn your enemies loved one diamonds into soda water
Or a drill bit. 😆
Technically, graphite is thermodynamically more stable than diamond, so diamond will eventually decay into graphite. Therefore, diamond isn't forever, graphite is.
The truth is that nothing is forever even stable isotopes like the ones found in graphite decay after long enough, billions of years, but still.
@@woopygoman If we are being that technical, then Fe-56 is the most stable isotope in the universe. So eventually, everything will decay into iron
@@Guderian0617 Yeah and matter will turn into photons and leptons after the heat death of the universe. Spooky stuff!
It was unsettling how he said "That's Joe right here"
I want my eulogy to be: "He didn't shine bright in life but as they say, it's never too late!"
Have Rihanna's Diamonds playing in the background too
The video neglects to mention one of the most interesting properties of synthetic HPHT and CVD diamonds - they often glow in the dark. Boron in HPHT diamonds can induce phosphorescence, typically appearing as blue or white afterglow. This is especially common in colorless to near-colorless HPHT synthetics. Also, nitrogen-Boron donor-acceptor pairs: The interaction between substitutional nitrogen and boron atoms (NB pairs) in the diamond lattice can result in a broad blue-green phosphorescence band. Additionally nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in pink to red HPHT synthetic diamonds also cause it with NV defect centers created during post-growth treatment resulting in orange or red phosphorescence. Anomalous luminescence occurs in natural diamond sometimes as well, but is significantly rarer.
I'm skeptical that ashes, which are the famous remains after burning all the carbon, contain any carbon at all. Especially when buddy says the "extracted carbon" is mixed with graphite. The process is the same if you leave out the alleged human carbon.
Good point but it looks like there is some carbon. In the video it was only a few grams they were able to get out of the ashes, presumably from incomplete reactions or byproducts with carbon in them. It also strikes me as strange that they mixed graphite in. Edit, just looked it up and Calcium Carbonate is one of the primary components of organic ashes.
Aren’t ashes just the bones of the person, ground down into a powder, since all the flesh got burned away?
I think most of the actual carbon in the human body is released during cremation in the form of CO2 gas. But probably there is a little left behind in the ashes.
Yes. If diamonds vapourise when subjected to intense heat, how do human remains retain carbon after the same high heat treatment?
Yes, it's pretty much a scam.
Back in chemistry class, our teacher pointed out that diamonds are in fact unstable and those strong bonds break spontaneously - just very, very slowly. So "diamonds are forever" is actually a lie. Observe one for a few billion years and you'll see it decay. 😂
I am currently propagating pathos that was my grandfather before he died. The carbon in that plant came from my grandfather, grandmother and others in my family. It’s going to cost me about $20 per person to give my cousins a living reminder of our grandfather that contains carbon directly from him, just like a diamond. Moral of the story, House plants do the same thing and they’re cheaper by magnitudes!!!
As a plant person myself, I love this idea! 💜🪴💜
As a person who sucks at botany i would prefer to not see them die twice but to each their own
How do you do this if I may ask? Do you have to grow a plant in a hermetically sealed CO2 atmosphere, where all the CO2 is from that person's carbon?
Then you can tell visitors you accidentally killed Grandpa and Auntie Jenelle! Or that you have to go feed Grandpa, if you're less morbid.
@@unvergebeneid is used as fertilizer (more context : that way the plan absorbs part of them aka they become part of the plant)
I won't scatter you sorrows to the heartless Sea
I will always be with you
Plant your roots in me
I won't see you end as ashes
You're All Diamonds
-The Man who Solds the World.
lol was looking for this
Big boss😮
I'm really not a fan of ads masquerading as science videos. The process of making diamonds is very interesting but it feels like native advertising here, making sure to hit all the selling points of the product. Felt rather light on actual science leaving me with many questions. Such as: what is the diamond seed? Is it a natural diamond? Manufactured? What are its specifications.
"Honey, where's grandma's ashes?"
"She's the diamond in your ring Ma!"
In the old days you just gave a lump of coal to Superman and he would squeeze it into a diamond.
What if I just wanted to be a pencil? Then I can be mightier.
I'd heard of this and wondered how it was done. Thanks for the great video.
4:50 it's not Calcium, but Calcium oxid in water or Calciumhydroxid solution which forms from CaO and H2O.
Also called Lime water.
2:11 My friend Joe
"Shine on you crazy diamond" has a whole new meaning......
Kaz... I'm already a diamond...
You're all diamonds....
Why are we here? Just to become diamonds?!
"I see dead people... sparkly dead people...."
Sister has had my father and stepfather turned into diamonds. The process has improved in the years between do my stepfather ended up larger than my father. She plans to do this with my mother when she passes.
-"out of dead people"
- OKAY NOW I'M LISTENING
A college friend of mine was doing postgraduate work on making diamonds in the 1990s. 10 years later he had a very rare form of lung cancer that could have only come from the lab where he had been doing that work. The cancer eventually killed him. They never had a viable, economical process.
I'm planning on this after my demise. Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has been my theme song for decades. It will be my way to exist in perpetuity. I'll keep shining on...
- I swear, officer, I am a scientist, this was an experiment!
~ Where is the stolen diamond?
- It just vanished!
Carbon is carbon is carbon. Doesn’t matter where it comes from. Carbon is carbon.
Isotope ratios. ;-)
Personally, I want to go back into the food chain as fast as possible after I die. No chemicals, no expensive caskets or cremations. Put me in the ground/water as I am, and let nature take it's coarse.
Or "let nature take its corpse"?
Human composting is legal in at least 6 states in America. Sky burial in Tibet is a thing too, but it would be costly to ship your corpse to Tibet, then dragged up a mountain to be cut up and fed to vultures. We Americans as a whole are far too squeamish to allow THAT here in America. There is also the matter of cultural appropriation. Good luck. Whatever you decide, put it in a will or at least a letter of instruction.
You should see about getting a reservation at a body farm.
Minus the fact that it's made with a dead person's ashes that you probably knew. It'll feel weird for a while. That's is so COOL!
i'm curious about how much ash is required?
my mom passed just over two months ago and this has me very curious about creating a unique tribute to honour her memory
ETA- looked up the company and a quick estimate $15K for a clear 1K heart shaped diamond but no quantity required is described
I think they can supplement ash with graphite. The sentimentality remains, even if the diamond isn’t 100% organic.
*"i'm curious about how much ash is required?"*
Zero.
*"but no quantity required is described"*
That's because they don't need any. They will trash whatever you give them, and use pure graphite. You are happy, they are happy, everyone is happy.
Diamonds are not valuable, they just have good marketing. The world is full of diamonds
Debeers "Diamonds are forever"-------A scientist "Hold my beer while I get some oxygen and a blowtorch"
Nice video, I wish you could have explained a few more things, like where do they get the template/guide from? how is that made, and is it becoming part of the new diamond and therefore must be replaced everytime?
Ultrapure carbon is actually made from sugar - it's called "sugar charcoal". The reason sugar is used is because simple sugars are pure hydrocarbons and also can be recrystallized to remove any organic impurities. The plants already had to work very hard to catenate all the carbon atoms into such energetic molecules (the energy density if suscrose is comparable to gasoline and people actually use it as a solid rocket fuel (!)). To make carbon, just pour a little concentrated sulfuric acid over a white sugar cube and observe... the acid will dehydrate the hydrocarbon (rip off all the hydroxyl group and form water) leaving behind the carbon backbode. The sugar cube will grow into a black steaming mass consisting basically of carbon, water, sulfurous acid and some remaining sulfuric. All this can be washed out and after drying you will have pretty much pure carbon. It's not economical to be used for BBQ (it's too good - just use wood charcoal) but it's great as a lab reagent (e.g. for carbothermic reductions).
I read about growing diamonds back in the 90's. There were 2 companies using different technic to trying to make diamond. They were not able to make diamonds yet at the time.
This is a real gem of an episode. Now I know what to do with my mom's cremains. Thanks for sharing! 💎💎💎
As beautiful as they may come out, I can only imagine the amount of energy and materials it takes to create a diamond. Adding to one’s carbon footprint… no pun intended.
Everyone that knows me knows that my death request is to be turned into compost. Compost my body and feed it to a forest!
We’ve all used Earth for food and energy. Let’s replace it!
I agree 100% Such a misuse of resources all for vanity's sake but I suppose it's better than blood diamonds and the harms of the industry.
I too will be buried naturally, no additives, naked or just in a shroud. I'll have my loved ones bury a seed of a native tree over my body so that my elements can feed that tree and become part of its makeup. In this way, provide a tangible my loved ones can visit and touch.
I’m telling my kids I’m leaving them diamonds and then having myself made into 2.
Hold on... 5.5 GPa and 1400C?? Those are some EXTREME extreme conditions
this gives new meaning to "crystalize that memory" 🥰
Awesome video, thank you very much. I've wanted to stipulate in my will that I want this done with my cremains, now just gotta save up for it so whoever ends up with my end-of-life plans can afford to get it done.
Make sure they don't skimp ya body! Your body is made of nearly 18.5% carbon! So me being 100 pounds equals... Well... Easy math, 37 pounds of Carbon!
Just playing. I have around 18.5 pounds of carbon, and I am a scrawny mofo so let us knock it down.
That means 15 pounds of diamonds no? Maybe there are ineffencies... So they better give you a five pound diamond at least!
Jokes aside as someone terminally ill I wish I could afford this myself. I don't know what will happen as dying is expensive, and I am broke.
@@dianapennepacker6854 Contact local museums of science/industry and ask them to foot the bill for your diamondization in return for getting to display you? I've seen a lot of mineral displays in various museums but never a "this was made out of a human" diamond. Might could get Eterneva to chip in a bit because that would be good advertising, too.
The CVD process for making diamonds would make a good video.
Now how do I get some dead people…
Ask the NRA
I heard the ones at the cemetery are free
00:48 wow., that escalated quickly.!
Shine on you crazy diamond
Next talk about how the diamond industry was created purely to take away our money and never was symbol of love !
when i was in 2nd grade someone had told me that diamonds are formed from buried coal. so i took a bunch of charcoal and buried it in our backyard. imagine my disappointment when there were no sparkling diamonds when i dug up the spot a few months later. i have already told everyone in my family that after i die. i want to be cremated and turned into a diamond, set in a ring and passed from generation to generation as a family heirloom.
"How to turn dead people into diamonds"
We'll make diamonds from their ashes, take 'em into battle with us.
Fantastic content, thanks for keeping me curious
Where is the link to the annual survey that we were asked to complete in the video ?
turning a person into a diamond, feels like the act of a wizard to me who would punish someone for eternity due to their betrayal.
"What if I just wanted to be a pencil?"
Kudos to the "cuffs" commenter who asked - deserved replication and reposting 👏😂👏
So interesting!
Now I wonder, how much money did it cost to produce that human made die-mond versus a natural diamonds extracted from earth?
How could this kind of human made diamonds alter the price of diamond jewelry?
The reason I'd want lab diamonds over natural, is it's unlikely anyone is going to get killed making lab diamonds but mining is so dangerous, and ruins the land.
Lab made diamonds are much cheaper than natural ones due to price manipulation by diamond companies. Lab made are also more pure, can have very specific impurities to make them shine certain colors, as customizable as you want.
However, CREMATION diamonds are much more expensive than regular synthetic diamonds...
It’s crazy when you think about it
How did someone even think about this?
coolest thing I have seen today !
There is an acoustic signature for every material and more specifically every object.
Heat and pressure are useful ways to substitute for not exactly understanding the acoustic forces which contribute to the formation of carbon and their organization into materials such as diamond...
If anyone is looking for someone to assist them in understanding how materials are composed by objects tunneling into acoustic wells, please contact me with any questions.
Great video!
Really interested what kind of alloy is used for this.
Not the exact kind (that would probably be a trade secret), but at least some components of it.
All I can tell you is there’s Pt involved
i would think that iron, nickel, platinum or cobalt can be used as they are catalyst to make graphite at a lower temperature and carbon is quite soluble in them. i think iron would be a good one to try as carbon has a very high solubility in iron and iron carbide(carbon transfer?) has a lower melting point than 1400C. i could be wrong though.
I would love to see an in-depth video on polycrystalline diamonds
Im so lucky to know and see this! It is mind blowing and helps me profit from the pile in my basement! Thanks a lot!
The first synthetic diamond was created by Swedish ASEA in 1953.
Diamonds from the Dead. That's pretty metal
Lemmy would approve.
Could become a band name. Or a metal album name
No, it's diamond!
Diamonds aren't some magic indestructible material. Their fracture toughness is very low and cannot take impact load. One hammer strike and diamond will be broken.
How does the production cost compare to its market value? thanks.
Good timing with the Veritasium glass video drop
So the seed diamond is kind of like the starter for pearl farms. Neat!
How come this video gives (at 10:55) an idea that there are no isotope C12 in either natural or synthetic diamond? Elsewhere in nature
C12 is the most common isotope, 98,9% of all carbon, then why not in diamonds?
Thank you!
I wonder if you could make a diamond with a specific colour (like a red, blue, brown, black, etc.)
🎵🎶A kiss on the hand may be quite continental...🎵🎶
🎵🎶But a guy who can make endless diamonds out of dead things is a girl's best friend.🎵🎶
I feel the atmosphere is slowly crushing me into a diamond.
This video was very enlightening
A body is worth more than its weight in diamond.
In regards to the energy cost.
I did not expect the video to be about literal family jewels.
Hey Joe , has anyone told you your voice sounds really similar to Kevin Conroy the voice of batman ?
At least I see it that way, very informative video btw 💎
Never heard that one before! 🦇
What's better than blood diamonds?
Whole body diamonds!
7:54 - Hank does a great Joe Scott impression..... 😂
😭😂
Looks like Hank but isn’t Hank, I thought the same at first but his name is Joe!
Great video! Have you heard about the diamond chemical vapor deposition? That's a completely different process than high-pressure/high-temperature, and is a interesting way to produce electronic-grade diamond by using methane and hydrogen :)
If we managed to make a diamond out of pure Carbon 14, I wonder what it would look like after a few thousand years of decay. Would it look porous? Would it make shiny-looking bubbles? Or would it just get cloudy?
There are very good reasons to challenge diamonds made out of human cremated remains. The main issue is: The carbon extracted from cremation remains are not the needed quality needed to grow diamonds in presses. The main source of carbon used to grow diamonds is Brazil. If you try to do it out of cremated remains, it’s simply not working the way those scam companies are claiming.
so amazing and beautiful!!!
1:05 Diamonds aren't crystals, they're network covalently bonded.
Yep, it's made with bits of real people, so you know it's good!
can the process the for making diamond, be used in other materials, like zinc iron alloy?
8:59 THATS ALL? thats not even 100,000lbs... on a post it note. i also wonder how much of that heat needed is just from the pressure alone.
10:19 the process takes a couple weeks each??
The scientists working on creating lab diamonds must have been under alot of pressure.
I just checked Wikipedia, and it says that the heaviest synthetic diamond ever made weighs six grams. (The heaviest natural diamond ever found weighed 633 grams.)
How long is the process from start to finish?
This is so cool ❤
“Earth Mantel Machine” goes so hard