+JeefCakes 1:10 - 1:20 he ran out of English fuel.:) I thought it was funny, please don't feel like I'm mocking you HPC. You should hear me try Finnish - I can't do it.
Yeah. Kudos to her to continue holding that diamond even after it popping like that, most people would probably have peaced it the fuck out right there.
I ask myself, how weird is my english pronunciation, I'm brazilian, and never really talked with an american, if my english sounds weird like an american speaking portuguese it would be so shameful! hahaha
He does because you can't adjust the shutterspeed to decrease the amount of light when filming, and a tiny aperture will make the image quite blurry because of diffraction, and make the whole thing lose depth.
Vladimir Yuvachov "He does because you can't adjust the shutterspeed to decrease the amount of light when filming" - you can, though. Easily. I can get 1/4000 on my dSLR.
Well yes, you /can/, but it doesn't mean you should. It affects the way the video looks. Generally speaking, there's a cinematographic rule that the shutter speed should only ever be the framerate multiplied by 2, give or take. Ignoring this, and using an overly high shutter speed will practically eliminate motion blur. This comes across as quite unnatural and disorienting to the viewer, which may or may not be a desired effect. On the other hand, using a very slow shutterspeed will cause an unnaturally heavy motion blur. Again, this can be desirable for certain aesthetic purposes, but generally it is good to stick to the framerate x 2 rule. Google the 180-degree shutter speed rule if you would like a more elaborate explanation on this!
Maybe do some videos with welding tools. Melt something with Acetylene & O2 torch. Or do some arc welding videos. But!! Put welding shield/glasses infront of the camera so that we can see what is going on. :)
+Beyond the press Maybe try submerging the diamonds in a strong oxidizer? Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide, Chlorine or Sulfuric Acid? The carbon should start burning...
Hellsslave666 Carbon molecules will oxidize so fast that it will actually produce an intense flame (which is glowing hot gas, same principle that makes fire) Combustion is just a type of quick redox reaction... Try Hydrogen Peroxide with sugar or gasoline... Just keep a fire extinguisher close. No one has yet tried it with a diamond, at least none that I know of... probably because no one was willing to spend millions on a single experiment...
Might I suggest placing the diamond onto a bed of sand or if that fails mounting it onto a bed of clay which can then be baked solid to form a ceramic "holder" for the diamond. I think part of the difficulty is coming from the fact that the diamond is an excellent thermal conductor and placing it on metal will make it difficult to heat because of the loss to the metal base. I think the result, if there is sufficient oxygen, would be the diamond turning into CO2. Will diamond actually burn ? Perhaps if you can get it hot enough and replace the heat source with a supply of oxygen it might actually burn without an external flame being applied. I have no idea. Burning diamond ... Makes an excellent wedding ring for a pyromaniac. :) Thanks for the vid.
What if you heat it until it started burning and the turn off the acetylene but leave the oxygen on? The residual heat in the diamond maybe enough to combust in a oxygen rich environment.
We burned Diamonds ins school. Its actually quite easy, the trick is LOTS of oxygen. We placed them in a horizontal glass tube that was able to withstand high amounts of heat, and had a hose connected to it. Through that hose we blasted pure oxygen so the diamonds where in a pure oxygen environment. Then all that was needed to make them burn, was a Bunsen burner underneath the glass tube.
Ceramic crucible and try again. Diamonds have very good heat transfer, so that heat was going from the diamond to the surrounding metal. The right type of ceramic wont let that heat transfer out of the diamond, so it should be a bit easier to melt or burn it.
+pauljs75 Yeah guys! Don't you remember burning shit in Chemistry class in High School?... The ceramic crucible with a large "Bunsen burner" type flame/torch under it should be able to melt it, I would think... I have heard that diamonds will evaporate into carbon dioxide gas when heated above 1400 or 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, although I've never had the opportunity to try that, so it would be cool to see if that's true on here!
I have seen a video they had, I think on Modern Marvels, of a diamond burning. After they got it hot enough to start the burning it kept hot after the torch was taken away and the diamond skated around the pan they had as it was glowing until it disappeared.
You don't need a welding torch to burn diamond, igniting temperature is from 720 to 850 degrees of celcius. What you will need is steady and rich source of oxygen. Diamond turns into carbon dioxide while burning so for every carbon atom in diamond you will need at least two atoms of oxygen. Burning diamond leaves no residue so after you get everything right it just vaporates into air.
+Beyond the press In order to easily burn the diamond you need some liquid oxygen. Run oxygen gas from your torch, through a spiral coil of copper tubing that is submerged in liquid nitrogen. The oxygen will condense and come out of the tube as a blue liquid. Heat the diamond as hot as possible. Then using small pliers pick up the white hot diamond and drop it in the liquid oxygen.
The melting glass gave me a thought...have you tried crushing a Prince Rupert's Drop in your press? I've not checked your back videos to see if you have, but it would be a great one to compare a PR's Drop to regular glass. Great vid as always, thanks for sharing. **Edit: typo
The principle of burning things is to make them as small as possible to increase the surface. 1.) You will lit up very easy powder or dust with your lighter but 2.) you will have a lot of trouble doing that to a tree ---- Press the diamond parts again into dust and then light it up !
If you really want to burn diamonds, you need one more thing: liquid oxygen. Heat up a diamond and either squirt liquid oxygen on it (to burn a little at a time) or drop it in a pool of liquid oxygen. Either way, the diamond will convert itself to less-structured carbon quite efficiently.
Christian Patton Nope, it does. The carbon reacts with the oxygen on the air and the diamond turns into CO2. If it were heated in a vacuum, it would slowly turn into graphite do to the lack of oxygen.
+TuxPenguin Heat diamond to the melting point of 3550C in high pressure inert gas like neon and it doesn't vaporize or turn into graphite but it melts. I don't know why this has been tested out but that's how it is :D
+Corey Wood do the experiment - put an empty glass into microwave and set it for 1 minute, then observe if it has gotten any hotter, remember glass contain no water.
I honestly doubt it would. Super heated near-pure oxygen didn't even dent the diamonds, liquid ogygen is so cold that it wouldn't have anywhere near enough heat to break the thermodynamic barrier, I would think.
Fleecemaster Nope, it does burn readily in liquid oxygen. Perhaps because it's much more concentrated than gaseous oxygen and the heat of the reaction is enough to sustain the burning.
1772, Antoine Lavoisier used a lens to concentrate the rays of the sun on a diamond in an atmosphere of oxygen, and showed that the only product of the combustion was carbon dioxide,
I understand from what prof. Poliakoff said on a video, that you can burn these by heating them as much as you can with a blowtorch, then dropping them into liquid oxigen.
Hei Man, your work is nice, and your English with Finnish accent is making it more awesome, I really enjoyed both the videos! I am living in Finland, and when I saw the main video I guessed you should be from Finland and it made me much more interested.
If you made the conclusion that they burn endothermically based on this video, you may be mistaken. If you put them in a room with the required temperature to burn (and maybe set them ablaze), I'd think that the reaction add energy to the system.
So, you're saying that the entropy of the product is lower than that of the reactant? I somewhat doubt that in this particular case. C (s, diamond) + O2(g) ---> CO2(g), ΔH° = -395.4 kJ, that's exothermic. Heat is being given off. Now, whether or not that ΔH° is higher than the activation energy, THAT's what matters. It may very well be. However, heat is required to form the diamond as well (unless grown, but that actually requires a plasma which requires even larger amounts of energy to be put in.)
+ShuRugal Oorus yes argon can burn but for it to burn the timp is about the same as in core of the sun seeing as argon is one of the gases that the sun uses in its core
+drakosrex At that point, argon is undergoing fusion. While fission/fusion reactions are sometimes referred to colloquially as "burning", it is incorrect to say that argon is flammable, since that term refers specifically to the ability of a material to undergo an energetic chemical reaction with oxygen (combustion).
According to the Gem Society, it only take about 850°C to burn diamond, but that's in a pure oxygen environment. It will still work in air, but you have to keep the torch with the extra oxygen on the diamond until after it is white-hot.
As I know to burn diamond you heat it until it lights red as in your video and the drop it in some amount(half a glass wil do) of pure oxygen. Looks awesome!
Diamonds melt at over 3500 degrees. The iron tongs used in here melt around 2800 and the steel plate at around 2700. To get the diamond hot enough to burn properly He would have to surpass the melt point of all of that equipment by a lot.
Hello! Thank you for your great videos! I understand that plasma cutters are hotter than even acetylene/oxygen mixtures, and wonder what it would do to a diamond?
I was under the impression that was no longer true, since you can enclose the ignition arc within the nozzle, this means if the surface is primed with a metallic substance (metal film) an arc can form regardless of the conductivity of the intended target, I know somebody in real life who has cut tiles with a plasma cutter.
well that being said I could be wrong, thats how most of them work though, or atleast i think they do, the arc melts the metal then it punches through with a sharp steady flow of compressed air.
+Rangerover matt You are correct, in the traditional pre-2000's plasma cutter sense. However, newer techniques and tech have allowed for some impressive capabilities. Although, it is highly likely that non-conductive material cutting with plasma will ever get particularly popular in heavy industry. This is due to a Laser Cutters superior cutting edge in the same conditions and materials. I initially thought of it due to ionised air and the arc itself in a Plasma cutter often reach 25,000°C(45,000ºF)
THEfogVAULT Yeah I work on a farm so our tech is a few decades behind..... we do have a massive plasma cutter that works like i explained though, very useful and powerful tool
To burn the diamond fragments you need to heat the fragment(s) until red hot in an optimal fuel oxygen mixture, then turn the fuel off and leave the oxygen alone. Anything that is hot enough will then continue burning in the pure oxygen environment.
+SilverSmoke95 Tungsten has the highest *boiling* point of any element. Edit: Pretty sure Rhenium does actually, idk what the internet is talking about.
Remember that carbon is soluble in iron, so some of the dulling of the diamond might be the carbon moving into the hot metal pliers. (In fact, this solubility is one of the methods for creating industrial diamonds - supersaturate liquid iron with carbon, then cool it down, and you'll get diamonds crystallizing out of the solution. Sort of like you do to create rock candy.) Also, you can create (small) diamonds with an oxy-acetylene torch if you keep the growth substrate at the right temperature (right around 800C).
+zaxtor Diamond has an ignition point of around 850 to 1000 C in air and 720 to 800 C in oxygen. In a vacuum it starts to transform into graphite at around 1700 C.
Anders Öhlund So when it ignites it breaks down? Diamond in the vid seems to survived the extreme. Despite his oxygen rich fire. hottest blow torch heats to over 3,500C.
zaxtor Ignition means that it burns. It would turn into some form of carbon oxide (CO or CO2) along with other carbon remains like coal when it burns depending on how oxygen rich the environment is. Just because the torch is that hot doesn't mean that the diamond is. You probably need to keep the torch on it for a while to make it hot enough to ignite. He got it hot enough to ignite in the oxygen rich environment by the end but not quite hot enough to burn by itself in air. If he kept the flame on it for longer it probably would have.
Anders Öhlund I see. Some site said you have to keep the torch on the diamond for a long time. Some guy threw a superheated diamond into liquid oxygen and produced a super bright light for several seconds and then vanished.
zaxtor Yes I read it takes a while to heat up which is strange because apparently diamond is an excellent thermal conductor. Like 5 times better than copper. I read you can use a normal flame to ignite a diamond if you're patient enough but since it is just about hot enough it takes a good while. Yeah pure oxygen makes things burn REAL good! =D
+SFtheGreat I just wanted to write that. Get them red hot and drop them in liquid oxygen and you see the diamond moving around as it glows and burns and shrinks in size until its gone.
capsonjames No, thats the common procedure if you want to burn diamonds and have it look good on video. Liquid oxygen is dangerous as hell and also hard to get, but we know from experience that the channel owner at least knows liquid nitrogen very well.
+kurtilein3 I would expect putting something hot enough to ignite liquid oxygen in it-it would explode. I don't know much of anything about the properties of it though. I just know it's an explosive.
The original "burning a diamond" experiment was conducted by putting the diamond into a glass vacuum jar and then shining enough light on it that it slowly converted into carbon. Maybe you could set something up with your parabolic mirror? Keep up the great videos!
He has actually quite natural accent. Natural Finnish accent. No, I bet his accent stays unchangable as long as he stays in Finland and doesn't specificly train it. And even if he did learn natural, this accent is easy to inotiate as long as you know Finnish.
+austin bevis when diamond is hot, and u drop it to liguid oxygen, it vaporizes oxygen araund the diamond, and that way starts to burn, burning creates more heat and that means more vapor and even more heat, and in liquid oxygen its burning in 100% oxygen, instead of 15% , cuz thats the amount in atmosphere. just write burning diamond in liquid oxygen to search and u find how brightly it burns
What you need here is a Plasma Furnace. An electrical arc produces temperatures far hotter than the sun, which should be more than enough to ignite a diamond.
+Gafitescu Marian we are Finnish, we all have sauna's and hydraulic presses. Some people like to go at the beach, we go in the carage to do some pressing
Finnish English is the best English
peiond the press chänell
+JeefCakes I like Finglish!
+JeefCakes As long as it's not American English, i'm not complaining.
+JeefCakes 1:10 - 1:20 he ran out of English fuel.:)
I thought it was funny, please don't feel like I'm mocking you HPC. You should hear me try Finnish - I can't do it.
+JeefCakes kimi raikkonen
Finland is metal as fuck.
Your wife is a never ending source of awe at yout sheananigans. An embodiment of your audience :D
I agree shes is so adorable!
Yeah. Kudos to her to continue holding that diamond even after it popping like that, most people would probably have peaced it the fuck out right there.
the torch popped cuz it was so rich in O2. Just saying, i know that noise well and fuckin hate it when the torch pops lol.
true science
So true, her laughter makes me laugh a lot of the time. They both get such enjoyment out of such greatly random experiments! It's brilliant :)
Your english pronunciations are very charming. I particularly like they way you say 'edges'
+Tyler Barnes i like the way he says oxygen
+Tyler Barnes I prefer 'oonicorns'
+Tyler Barnes
I like the way he says : "It is very dangerous and may attack at any time !"
i liked "temperature"
I ask myself, how weird is my english pronunciation, I'm brazilian, and never really talked with an american, if my english sounds weird like an american speaking portuguese it would be so shameful! hahaha
Uij, you should get an ND filter in front of your camera so all the information isn't lost when it gets so bright!
+1
He doesn't need an ND filter, he just needs to use exposure bracketing, manual exposure or just set the aperture to very small. No need for a filter
He does because you can't adjust the shutterspeed to decrease the amount of light when filming, and a tiny aperture will make the image quite blurry because of diffraction, and make the whole thing lose depth.
Vladimir Yuvachov "He does because you can't adjust the shutterspeed to decrease the amount of light when filming" - you can, though. Easily. I can get 1/4000 on my dSLR.
Well yes, you /can/, but it doesn't mean you should. It affects the way
the video looks. Generally speaking, there's a cinematographic rule that
the shutter speed should only ever be the framerate multiplied by 2,
give or take. Ignoring this, and using an overly high shutter speed will
practically eliminate motion blur. This comes across as quite unnatural
and disorienting to the viewer, which may or may not be a desired
effect. On the other hand, using a very slow shutterspeed will cause an
unnaturally heavy motion blur. Again, this can be desirable for certain
aesthetic purposes, but generally it is good to stick to the framerate x 2
rule. Google the 180-degree shutter speed rule if you would like a more
elaborate explanation on this!
8:54 When ur english skills run out "Where is the - sytkä" :D
+Temechkin
so what does that "sytkä" word mean? do you know?
+MTP 1337 it means lighter lol
ah, thanks.
D
CYKA BLYAT
Maybe do some videos with welding tools.
Melt something with Acetylene & O2 torch. Or do some arc welding videos.
But!! Put welding shield/glasses infront of the camera so that we can see what is going on. :)
+Hellsslave666
I have also hand held plasmacutter that is extremely useful thing when dealing with dangerous stuff
+Beyond the press Maybe try submerging the diamonds in a strong oxidizer? Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide, Chlorine or Sulfuric Acid? The carbon should start burning...
+Beyond the press Yes plasmacutters are AWSOME!
+postvideo97 It would oxidize but not really "burn" in the way that we are used to. So it wouldnt look amazing.
Hellsslave666 Carbon molecules will oxidize so fast that it will actually produce an intense flame (which is glowing hot gas, same principle that makes fire) Combustion is just a type of quick redox reaction... Try Hydrogen Peroxide with sugar or gasoline... Just keep a fire extinguisher close. No one has yet tried it with a diamond, at least none that I know of... probably because no one was willing to spend millions on a single experiment...
At this rate, you'll crush the world.
+SoosUnknown actually i'd watch that with a big pleasure
***** WRONG !
+SoosUnknown Well hes crushing RUclips with the rate hes gaining new subs
847 dislikers. We must deal with them
yes they may attack at any time
617 now. OxyGan lol
So they must burn.
Wicket we must make an ass tray out from them.
'Shine bright like a diamond'
Now shine even brighter.
"beecuz the ed guess of the diamonds burned" man i love this guy
Might I suggest placing the diamond onto a bed of sand or if that fails mounting it onto a bed of clay which can then be baked solid to form a ceramic "holder" for the diamond. I think part of the difficulty is coming from the fact that the diamond is an excellent thermal conductor and placing it on metal will make it difficult to heat because of the loss to the metal base. I think the result, if there is sufficient oxygen, would be the diamond turning into CO2. Will diamond actually burn ? Perhaps if you can get it hot enough and replace the heat source with a supply of oxygen it might actually burn without an external flame being applied. I have no idea. Burning diamond ... Makes an excellent wedding ring for a pyromaniac. :) Thanks for the vid.
Dat moment when you try to heat something on a giant metal heatsink.
You should make videos of melting stuff in that hole with the torch!
+italiava18 rhnb? Or what?
+italiava18 Who needs original content these days?
That was one hell of a sponsor.
some people are able to appreciate greatness.
+BoB n fishy
*Some people are born Great, some achieve Greatness* and *_some_* have Greatness thrust upon them. [Act II, Scene v]
"Ve crusheded it"
I love this videos.
+Amy Gilmore hahahahahahahahahhahaha ve crussheedded it
-"What did you do today?"
-"Nothing special, just tried to burn some diamons." :D
What if you heat it until it started burning and the turn off the acetylene but leave the oxygen on? The residual heat in the diamond maybe enough to combust in a oxygen rich environment.
We burned Diamonds ins school. Its actually quite easy, the trick is LOTS of oxygen.
We placed them in a horizontal glass tube that was able to withstand high amounts of heat, and had a hose connected to it. Through that hose we blasted pure oxygen so the diamonds where in a pure oxygen environment.
Then all that was needed to make them burn, was a Bunsen burner underneath the glass tube.
Yeah, the rounded ed-guess are a dead giveaway.
apply Fluorine gas on the diamond.
Ceramic crucible and try again. Diamonds have very good heat transfer, so that heat was going from the diamond to the surrounding metal. The right type of ceramic wont let that heat transfer out of the diamond, so it should be a bit easier to melt or burn it.
+pauljs75 Yeah guys! Don't you remember burning shit in Chemistry class in High School?... The ceramic crucible with a large "Bunsen burner" type flame/torch under it should be able to melt it, I would think... I have heard that diamonds will evaporate into carbon dioxide gas when heated above 1400 or 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, although I've never had the opportunity to try that, so it would be cool to see if that's true on here!
I have seen a video they had, I think on Modern Marvels, of a diamond burning. After they got it hot enough to start the burning it kept hot after the torch was taken away and the diamond skated around the pan they had as it was glowing until it disappeared.
Cool! I'd like to see that! Can you find a link to that vid?
It was on TV long ago and It is tricky to find those videos online for free.
Very good ider
Your Finnish accent is hilarious, man :D I love it at 11:11 :D " if ai getteneni aydiass" LOL
lol his accent
Oksi genn
Ed ges.
You don't need a welding torch to burn diamond, igniting temperature is from 720 to 850 degrees of celcius. What you will need is steady and rich source of oxygen. Diamond turns into carbon dioxide while burning so for every carbon atom in diamond you will need at least two atoms of oxygen. Burning diamond leaves no residue so after you get everything right it just vaporates into air.
Burn more glass and make a large prince rupert's drop for the main channel!
i think this is "rally english" from finland
+Joni heikkinen Moor gääs!
The best way to burn a diamond is heating them up red hot then dropping them in liquid oxygen
missä on ne... where is the... sytkä?
jep :D
+sade Missä Anni...*
In my ass
Can you try to cut glass with a sharp pice of the diamond?
+Beyond the press In order to easily burn the diamond you need some liquid oxygen.
Run oxygen gas from your torch, through a spiral coil of copper tubing that is submerged in liquid nitrogen. The oxygen will condense and come out of the tube as a blue liquid.
Heat the diamond as hot as possible. Then using small pliers pick up the white hot diamond and drop it in the liquid oxygen.
"aim efrreid dat dei gona flai avei" :D
:-D
:-D
:-D
jesus christ stop mentioning harambe we are moving on now
damnit jesus why havent you told your father to improve my vision
Where are the Edgars on a diamond? ;)
I thought you were going to burn them with your solar dish.
Poor Mrs. HPC. She sounds so scared in this video.
+Richard “Firebug” Merrick i was scared for the diamonds
Anni is so funny lol
You and your wife are awesome people :D
"Ed-gez" for "edges", best pronunciation ever lol
The intro text should probably be white. I think it would be easier to read.
+Hank W To add to this, adding shadow to the text makes it readable on pretty much anything.
Yep! Should have mentioned this too.
get glasses if you can't read it :D
@Beyound the press
*Put some strong solar glasses in front of the camera lens and try burning them again.*
Veer is thö sytkä :DD
please never start clickbaiting !! i actually trust yout titles all the time because i know its gonna be a good video and entertaining af !!!
The melting glass gave me a thought...have you tried crushing a Prince Rupert's Drop in your press? I've not checked your back videos to see if you have, but it would be a great one to compare a PR's Drop to regular glass. Great vid as always, thanks for sharing.
**Edit: typo
+touchnova Well, but he would have to be really god damn precise I think.
The principle of burning things is to make them as small as possible to increase the surface.
1.) You will lit up very easy powder or dust with your lighter but
2.) you will have a lot of trouble doing that to a tree
---- Press the diamond parts again into dust and then light it up !
Crush the diamond after having super-cooled it
If you really want to burn diamonds, you need one more thing: liquid oxygen. Heat up a diamond and either squirt liquid oxygen on it (to burn a little at a time) or drop it in a pool of liquid oxygen.
Either way, the diamond will convert itself to less-structured carbon quite efficiently.
The melting point of diamond is 3550 °C
+Christian Patton Diamond can't melt. Once it hits that temperature, it vaporizes.
+TuxPenguin I thought diamond doesn't subliminate
Christian Patton Nope, it does. The carbon reacts with the oxygen on the air and the diamond turns into CO2. If it were heated in a vacuum, it would slowly turn into graphite do to the lack of oxygen.
+TuxPenguin Diamond CAN be melted in no oxygen conditions and in high enough pressure.
+TuxPenguin Heat diamond to the melting point of 3550C in high pressure inert gas like neon and it doesn't vaporize or turn into graphite but it melts. I don't know why this has been tested out but that's how it is :D
Does this dude just have a huge workshop to play with?
....jealous.
I was just beginning to overrcome my adiction with hydrooolic prres, and then I rrealize tat tis mootar fooking snekes can ignite
+Jesus Palacios (JPdrums) As much as I like his videos, it's so unbelievably fucking painful listening to him speak English.
Sure
Now, this is great, actually one of the funniest and bizarre video on YT.
"Beyond the press", one of my fav.channels.
You could set the burnt diamonds in a HPC design ring?
what about microwaving them?
+Psiaken that wouldnt work because microwaves cook by making water boil... diamonds contain no water.
+Corey Wood do the experiment - put an empty glass into microwave and set it for 1 minute, then observe if it has gotten any hotter, remember glass contain no water.
Psiaken I was refering to the diamond though.
+Psiaken it might get warm due to the humid air.
is it weird that i always associate his voice for a short, stout person with thick long beard and mustaches
Yes!
This was awesome, so glad you just kept trying when you failed several times! Cool to see the progress throughout the video
What material is the press head made of?
Also, I guess Solid Snake turned into Liquid Snake?
She's a brave lady.. You have a good women there. Thank you for this video you two. From Australia.
missö on ööh wheer is the sytkä?
That'd be cool to melt diamonds down into a film like aluminum and have paper-like diamonds
Heat the diamond until its red hot and put it in liquid oxygen! That would eat that diamond alive no problem!!!!!! Turns it into pure carbon dioxide!
+areanem It's called carbon dioxide..
toyota prius memes Thanks for the correction! I fixed the post!
No problem m8
I honestly doubt it would. Super heated near-pure oxygen didn't even dent the diamonds, liquid ogygen is so cold that it wouldn't have anywhere near enough heat to break the thermodynamic barrier, I would think.
Fleecemaster Nope, it does burn readily in liquid oxygen. Perhaps because it's much more concentrated than gaseous oxygen and the heat of the reaction is enough to sustain the burning.
1772, Antoine Lavoisier used a lens to concentrate the rays of the sun on a diamond in an atmosphere of oxygen, and showed that the only product of the combustion was carbon dioxide,
She speaks!
More delightful ... She giggles!
Watch Beyond the Press to hear her speak nearly every episode!
I understand from what prof. Poliakoff said on a video, that you can burn these by heating them as much as you can with a blowtorch, then dropping them into liquid oxigen.
I like Turtles, and Finnish Rally English :)
+STriderFIN77 and Finnish Brave wives :D
Hei Man, your work is nice, and your English with Finnish accent is making it more awesome, I really enjoyed both the videos! I am living in Finland, and when I saw the main video I guessed you should be from Finland and it made me much more interested.
They don't burn as easily as I expected.
Yeah, they also burn endothermically, but thanks to entropy they still burn, but as you noticed only at very high temperatures
+Tom Price TIL endothermical burning exists.
+Creator13 you made me notice that he said "endothermic" not "exothermic".
If you made the conclusion that they burn endothermically based on this video, you may be mistaken. If you put them in a room with the required temperature to burn (and maybe set them ablaze), I'd think that the reaction add energy to the system.
So, you're saying that the entropy of the product is lower than that of the reactant? I somewhat doubt that in this particular case.
C (s, diamond) + O2(g) ---> CO2(g), ΔH° = -395.4 kJ, that's exothermic. Heat is being given off. Now, whether or not that ΔH° is higher than the activation energy, THAT's what matters. It may very well be. However, heat is required to form the diamond as well (unless grown, but that actually requires a plasma which requires even larger amounts of energy to be put in.)
the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, it can only be felt by the heart.
13:29 Everything is flammable at the right temperature, even diamonds and snakes.
I'm reasonably certain that argon isn't.
+ShuRugal Oorus yes argon can burn but for it to burn the timp is about the same as in core of the sun seeing as argon is one of the gases that the sun uses in its core
+Sion is fire flammable?
+drakosrex At that point, argon is undergoing fusion. While fission/fusion reactions are sometimes referred to colloquially as "burning", it is incorrect to say that argon is flammable, since that term refers specifically to the ability of a material to undergo an energetic chemical reaction with oxygen (combustion).
Water
According to the Gem Society, it only take about 850°C to burn diamond, but that's in a pure oxygen environment. It will still work in air, but you have to keep the torch with the extra oxygen on the diamond until after it is white-hot.
Try burning the diamond again, but this time add an filter to the camera, welders mask.
As I know to burn diamond you heat it until it lights red as in your video and the drop it in some amount(half a glass wil do) of pure oxygen. Looks awesome!
How about using a laser on the diamond and on other materials? Love your channel!
+Ken Scherer It might just act as an optical reflector and diffuse the laser light.
Diamonds melt at over 3500 degrees. The iron tongs used in here melt around 2800 and the steel plate at around 2700. To get the diamond hot enough to burn properly He would have to surpass the melt point of all of that equipment by a lot.
Hello!
Thank you for your great videos!
I understand that plasma cutters are hotter than even acetylene/oxygen mixtures, and wonder what it would do to a diamond?
Nothing as it can't cut something that an electrical current can't flow through
I was under the impression that was no longer true, since you can enclose the ignition arc within the nozzle, this means if the surface is primed with a metallic substance (metal film) an arc can form regardless of the conductivity of the intended target,
I know somebody in real life who has cut tiles with a plasma cutter.
well that being said I could be wrong, thats how most of them work though, or atleast i think they do, the arc melts the metal then it punches through with a sharp steady flow of compressed air.
+Rangerover matt
You are correct, in the traditional pre-2000's plasma cutter sense.
However, newer techniques and tech have allowed for some impressive capabilities.
Although, it is highly likely that non-conductive material cutting with plasma will ever get particularly popular in heavy industry. This is due to a Laser Cutters superior cutting edge in the same conditions and materials.
I initially thought of it due to ionised air and the arc itself in a Plasma cutter often reach 25,000°C(45,000ºF)
THEfogVAULT Yeah I work on a farm so our tech is a few decades behind..... we do have a massive plasma cutter that works like i explained though, very useful and powerful tool
Guy: Whats up, what have you been doing? Friend: Oh you know, just burning diamonds.
I think you should do a Q and A video
+YOLO 82 i think he said he will do it at 1m subs not sure if it was on reddit or facebook
The carbon's molecular bond in diamond is much stronger than in graphite or coal, that's why it is more resistant to heat.
+beyondthepress please do a Reddit AMA
Make a diamond ring from one of the pieces with all your tools and give it to your wife :D
Do prince rupert's drop under hydraulic press please!!!
Cats Rule he's already done that
Paganisegg i dont think he had done such video 10 months ago. first check the date of the comment before you write something :)
To burn the diamond fragments you need to heat the fragment(s) until red hot in an optimal fuel oxygen mixture, then turn the fuel off and leave the oxygen alone. Anything that is hot enough will then continue burning in the pure oxygen environment.
that moment when you realise that diamonds are made from high heat and pressure, and carbon has the highest melting point of any pure element
The moment you realize that TUNGSTEN has the highest melting point of any element...
Tungsten is 3422C vs carbons 3550C .... Highest metal not element
+andrew garcia mmmy mistake.
+SilverSmoke95 Tungsten has the highest *boiling* point of any element.
Edit: Pretty sure Rhenium does actually, idk what the internet is talking about.
Sective tungsten melts 100 degrees before carbon and Rhenium has a melting point of around 1900c
Remember that carbon is soluble in iron, so some of the dulling of the diamond might be the carbon moving into the hot metal pliers. (In fact, this solubility is one of the methods for creating industrial diamonds - supersaturate liquid iron with carbon, then cool it down, and you'll get diamonds crystallizing out of the solution. Sort of like you do to create rock candy.) Also, you can create (small) diamonds with an oxy-acetylene torch if you keep the growth substrate at the right temperature (right around 800C).
Diamond RRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRRR DIAMONDRRRRRR
08:21: "Dis iz too much for meee" *The laughing lady actually talks too!*
Diamond melting point is at around 3,550C or almost 4,000C
Actually I don't think it would melt but rather dissolve
+zaxtor Diamond has an ignition point of around 850 to 1000 C in air and 720 to 800 C in oxygen. In a vacuum it starts to transform into graphite at around 1700 C.
Anders Öhlund So when it ignites it breaks down?
Diamond in the vid seems to survived the extreme. Despite his oxygen rich fire.
hottest blow torch heats to over 3,500C.
zaxtor Ignition means that it burns. It would turn into some form of carbon oxide (CO or CO2) along with other carbon remains like coal when it burns depending on how oxygen rich the environment is. Just because the torch is that hot doesn't mean that the diamond is. You probably need to keep the torch on it for a while to make it hot enough to ignite. He got it hot enough to ignite in the oxygen rich environment by the end but not quite hot enough to burn by itself in air. If he kept the flame on it for longer it probably would have.
Anders Öhlund I see.
Some site said you have to keep the torch on the diamond for a long time.
Some guy threw a superheated diamond into liquid oxygen and produced a super bright light for several seconds and then vanished.
zaxtor Yes I read it takes a while to heat up which is strange because apparently diamond is an excellent thermal conductor. Like 5 times better than copper. I read you can use a normal flame to ignite a diamond if you're patient enough but since it is just about hot enough it takes a good while.
Yeah pure oxygen makes things burn REAL good! =D
Arc Welder was like: "Wai u no melt!?!?!?!?"
and crushed Diamond was like "gg, no re, get rekt."
Put them in liquid oxygen, they will burn.
+SFtheGreat Indeed, get them red hot and drop into liquid oxygen. It'll be FAST.
+SFtheGreat I just wanted to write that. Get them red hot and drop them in liquid oxygen and you see the diamond moving around as it glows and burns and shrinks in size until its gone.
Are you trying to get him killed or something?
capsonjames
No, thats the common procedure if you want to burn diamonds and have it look good on video. Liquid oxygen is dangerous as hell and also hard to get, but we know from experience that the channel owner at least knows liquid nitrogen very well.
+kurtilein3 I would expect putting something hot enough to ignite liquid oxygen in it-it would explode. I don't know much of anything about the properties of it though. I just know it's an explosive.
OMG, you showing the glass melting has given me a wonderful idea. Try to crush a Prince Rupert's Drop with the press!
use thermite!
The original "burning a diamond" experiment was conducted by putting the diamond into a glass vacuum jar and then shining enough light on it that it slowly converted into carbon. Maybe you could set something up with your parabolic mirror? Keep up the great videos!
Heat up the diamond very hot and put it between two pieces of co2 ice
+Veikko Haapamäki why?
+TM80 NotGoodWithNames Why not?
Veikko Haapamäki no mitä se hiilidoksidi siinä hyvejää
+TM80 NotGoodWithNames its going to explode
It's called dry ice dumbass
Could you melt a roll of solder using the burner.
If this guy's English accent ever becomes more 'natural' I'm unsubscribing.
He has actually quite natural accent. Natural Finnish accent.
No, I bet his accent stays unchangable as long as he stays in Finland and doesn't specificly train it.
And even if he did learn natural, this accent is easy to inotiate as long as you know Finnish.
that comment is pretty ed-gy. you should calm down, if you don't Mr HPC fill have to deel vith you
Belladonna Barter No one wants to be diilt vit Mr HPC
You are supposed to heat the diamond to cherry red and throw it in a cup with liquid oxygen.
8.50 where is the sytkä :D
Anni: I thought you said wedding diamond. Lauri: no i said welding diamond!
u should drop the red hot diamond in liquid oxygen, then it burns
+austin bevis when diamond is hot, and u drop it to liguid oxygen, it vaporizes oxygen araund the diamond, and that way starts to burn, burning creates more heat and that means more vapor and even more heat, and in liquid oxygen its burning in 100% oxygen, instead of 15% , cuz thats the amount in atmosphere. just write burning diamond in liquid oxygen to search and u find how brightly it burns
What you need here is a Plasma Furnace. An electrical arc produces temperatures far hotter than the sun, which should be more than enough to ignite a diamond.
Flamma-flamable.
Add more information like the temperature u used to burn the diamond, the quality of steal used, the torch name, etc.
why do you have so many tools? what are you in real life?
smith or something like that
I think he's a human.
+Otso Pänttönen XD
+Otso Pänttönen he's Suomalainen
+Gafitescu Marian we are Finnish, we all have sauna's and hydraulic presses. Some people like to go at the beach, we go in the carage to do some pressing
id laugh if the guy who sent it was expecting the diamond back because he was expecting the diamond not to be crushed