{"id":190153,"date":"2024-05-26T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/diamonds-grown-at-normal-pressure-in-just-15-minutes"},"modified":"2024-05-26T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:23:55","slug":"diamonds-grown-at-normal-pressure-in-just-15-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/diamonds-grown-at-normal-pressure-in-just-15-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds grown at normal pressure in just 15 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamonds-grown-at-normal-pressure-in-just-15-minutes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diamonds are famously formed under high pressure and temperature, which is partly why they\u2019re so valuable. But now, scientists have created diamonds in a lab under regular pressure in just 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Diamonds are basically just plain old carbon that\u2019s been put under immense pressure and temperature, causing the atoms to crystallize into a particular structure. On Earth, the only place with the right natural conditions is deep in the mantle, hundreds of miles down. Only later are they brought closer to the surface, hitching rides in volcanic eruptions, which makes them pretty rare. Couple that with some of the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/de-beers-lab-grown-diamonds\/54868\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">most insidious marketing in history<\/a>, and you\u2019ve got a highly sought-after little rock.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been growing diamonds in labs for decades, but it usually still needs those extreme conditions \u2013 almost 50,000 atmospheres of pressure, and temperatures of about 1,500 \u00b0C (2,732 \u00b0F). But a new technique has now produced diamonds under normal pressure levels and cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamonds are famously formed under high pressure and temperature, which is partly why they\u2019re so valuable. But now, scientists have created diamonds in a lab under regular pressure in just 15 minutes. Diamonds are basically just plain old carbon that\u2019s been put under immense pressure and temperature, causing the atoms to crystallize into a particular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}