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."
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!!!
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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 💎
It must've been confusing in the old days to find that diamonds could flogisticate the air. Whatever diamond is made of must be the secret to turning lead into gold, immortality, and all that science.
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.
Im convinced diamonds are completely worthless, I mean I just watched a video of someone vaporizing a bunch of them, so yeah completely worthless...yeah...
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 :)
so could you say that diamonds are the ultimate carbon fiber (the super strong and lightweight material usually used for making things, not fibers of carbon)?
Possible? Yes. But the time, energy, and resources required make it economically unviable from a 'green' perspective. The researcher, Max K. Lloyd at Penn State, that did one of the studies finding how it is made found that it is created by microbes eating methoxyl groups. And while it can be made in labs, it takes years to do so.
There was just 3 or 4 years ago, a legal case at Finland. Lady from Russia, made regular daytips from Russia to some border city inside European union. She was interrogated because they eventually useed roentgen or something to see inside letters. They were diamonds. She was only paid li 50 usd per letter, but was said that value of ten letters was around 5000usd, so she of paid taxes or somethin. Later I heard, that company who ordered them, was German or Swiss company that was selling diamonds to USA at people who were ordered stones from their loved ones ashes. Were they artificial or genuine, that I don´t know, but I assume that clients were scammed
Dude, why open and thumbnail this video with the boring dead people stuff and not the burning diamonds stuff??? I nearly bounced off to try to find a video of a burning diamond (thanks for having that included here after the explanation)
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 most common isotope, 98,9% of all carbon, then why not in diamonds?
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A friend did this for his family when his father passed. Kinda cool, kinda weird.
"that's a beautiful necklace."
-"Thanks, it was my mom!"
"Your moms?"
-"No, just the one."
LOL!
Better joke was done in Ozark.
"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 😂
"Darling, who are you wearing, you look stunning in those rocks!!"
"Oh, these old things? These are just Fred and Mary, yes."
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
I have always wondered how to turn a corpse into a diamond. Thanks Joe
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
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.
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.
I'd heard of this and wondered how it was done. Thanks for the great video.
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.
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.
It was unsettling how he said "That's Joe right here"
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.
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 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😮
Shine on you crazy diamond
"I see dead people... sparkly dead people...."
This video deserved a mention of the awful conditions in which natural diamonds are mined. Synthetic diamonds are not paid for in blood.
Really appreciated this video❤
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.
So the seed diamond is kind of like the starter for pearl farms. Neat!
Kaz... I'm already a diamond...
You're all diamonds....
Why are we here? Just to become diamonds?!
"Shine on you crazy diamond" -- Pink Floyd
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.
Thank you!
I still remember the TV Superman episode wherein he squeezed lumps of coal into diamonds.
so amazing and beautiful!!!
"How to turn dead people into diamonds"
We'll make diamonds from their ashes, take 'em into battle with us.
10:19 the process takes a couple weeks each??
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.
THIS is PEAK capitalisim. "Turn your loved ones into diamonds, great resale value!"
Chuck Norris can also scratch diamond
A body is worth more than its weight in diamond.
In regards to the energy cost.
This video was very enlightening
7:54 - Hank does a great Joe Scott impression..... 😂
😭😂
I’m telling my kids I’m leaving them diamonds and then having myself made into 2.
I won't scatter your sorrow 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
This is honestly a pretty sweet if a little morbid in a way. You can always keep your loved one close to you. Forever.
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...
This is so cool ❤
Now how do I get some dead people…
Is making gold theoretically possible too? Maybe it's a matter of available technology and cost.
Could we use this carbon to diamond process to collect and reduce CO2 out of the atmosphere? and help the climate! 🤔
What's better than blood diamonds?
Whole body diamonds!
NIle Red did the burning diamonds experiment and made the worlds most expensive carbonated water.
If you've not done a video on this, can we get one on nuclear transmutation? Like transuranics and all that ... stuff.
What if I just wanted to be a pencil? Then I can be mightier.
What happens if we don't put a diamond seed
This gives new meaning to shining like a diamond
coolest thing I have seen today !
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! 🦇
New Murder mystery Character just dropped:
It must've been confusing in the old days to find that diamonds could flogisticate the air. Whatever diamond is made of must be the secret to turning lead into gold, immortality, and all that science.
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.
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.
"Wow what a beautiful ring"
"Thanks we roasted my mother and compressed her into a diamond.
Now I wear her dead remains everywhere I go"
Hahahhaha
Diamonds from the Dead. That's pretty metal
Lemmy would approve.
Could become a band name. Or a metal album name
I want my eulogy to be: "He didn't shine bright in life but as they say, it's never too late!"
this is so cool. also, i didn't know how they had discovered that diamonds were made out of carbon
this feels like a veritasium video 👍
"shine bright like a diamond" - rihanna
What color would the diamond be if the ashes' impurities are left in?
I would assume something brownish
Finally a video I can get behind
Im convinced diamonds are completely worthless, I mean I just watched a video of someone vaporizing a bunch of them, so yeah completely worthless...yeah...
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 :)
Carbon is carbon is carbon. Doesn’t matter where it comes from. Carbon is carbon.
Isotope ratios. ;-)
so could you say that diamonds are the ultimate carbon fiber (the super strong and lightweight material usually used for making things, not fibers of carbon)?
Anybody else getting Soylent Green vibes?
Immediately!
Not really. Soylent Green was using corpses without telling anyone; here they're up front about it and it's optional.
I saw the thumbnail and I thought it was just another Wednesday for Nile Red
Oh my... well... technically - one could use crap to do this too. If that idea is more or less weird that using dead people is up to you.
A real Philosophers Stone before GTA 6....
can you please do a similar video on coal? as in if it's possible/economically feasible (if possible) to make coal in lab?
Possible? Yes. But the time, energy, and resources required make it economically unviable from a 'green' perspective. The researcher, Max K. Lloyd at Penn State, that did one of the studies finding how it is made found that it is created by microbes eating methoxyl groups. And while it can be made in labs, it takes years to do so.
Question: What would they get if they didn't use a seed crystal? Would it just be graphite?
how long would it take to make a diamond knife?
that's generational wealth there
Life goal: turning your loved ones into diamonds, and turning your enemies into soda water
There was just 3 or 4 years ago, a legal case at Finland. Lady from Russia, made regular daytips from Russia to some border city inside European union. She was interrogated because they eventually useed roentgen or something to see inside letters. They were diamonds. She was only paid li 50 usd per letter, but was said that value of ten letters was around 5000usd, so she of paid taxes or somethin. Later I heard, that company who ordered them, was German or Swiss company that was selling diamonds to USA at people who were ordered stones from their loved ones ashes. Were they artificial or genuine, that I don´t know, but I assume that clients were scammed
Dude, why open and thumbnail this video with the boring dead people stuff and not the burning diamonds stuff??? I nearly bounced off to try to find a video of a burning diamond (thanks for having that included here after the explanation)
Pink Floyd: Shine on you crazy diamond.
Reactions mentioned! Hi George!
well hello there :)
Nuh Bro turned dead people to diamond to impress the huzz
Hey, timmy finally made something of himself. Hes actually worth a damn. Lol
Dinosaur diamond vs human diamond
The gravity point is center for flyings. A jet wings on high golden meltings. One time only please.
I want to be made into a cursed artifact. Two ruby-like eyes (made with my ash) in the eye sockets of my own skull
If I got it right, a diamond is forever, unless someone very hot comes along and then the diamond disappears!
PS: the person who used to have the diamond had to be under irresistible pressure when the hot someone comes along.
I want to become a diamant 💎 after death.... at least the parts of me no other human needs to survive.
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 most common isotope, 98,9% of all carbon, then why not in diamonds?
Superman could squeeze a lump of coal into a diamond. I read it in a book.
Take THAT Batman.
Sounds like something that some mad leader would make out of his fallen comrades to honor them.
Will my flaws be in the diamond?
That's pretty neat. Shame they cost many (many) thousands of dollars.
Diemond
Technically you could make diamonds out of waffles🧐
a body is 18.5% carbon by mass. only that tiny bit remained because most turned to CO2 first. maybe intervene sooner in the process
Plot twist: that was not the cause of death, dude just wanted to obscure the evidence
(Joking of course, condolences to him)
I was expecting far more corpses
So People are Diamonds in the Rough 😱😱