{"id":32619,"date":"2016-12-13T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/scientists-are-creating-a-new-diamond-predicted-to-be-harder-than-a-jewelers-diamond"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:58:25","slug":"scientists-are-creating-a-new-diamond-predicted-to-be-harder-than-a-jewelers-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/scientists-are-creating-a-new-diamond-predicted-to-be-harder-than-a-jewelers-diamond","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are Creating a New Diamond Predicted to be Harder Than a Jeweler\u2019s Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-creating-a-new-diamond-predicted-to-be-harder-than-a-jewelers-diamond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all my Lab friends who utilize Spectrometers, drill bit fans as well as many of us QC fans. A new stronger syn. diamond being developed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But you won\u2019t find this diamond on any engagement rings \u2014 it will help cut through ultra-solid materials on mining sites.<\/p>\n<p>Step aside, girls. Diamonds may now be a miner\u2019s best friend, thanks to scientists from Australian National University (ANU).<\/p>\n<p>Led by ANU professor Jodie Bradby, an international team is creating a hexagonal diamond, called Lonsdaleite, that\u2019s predicted to be harder than a jeweler\u2019s diamond. The researchers made nano-sized Lonsdaleite at 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees Fahrenheit), effectively halving the temperature in which it can be formed in a lab. They\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/srep37232\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">published their work<\/a> in <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thescienceexplorer.com\/technology\/scientists-are-creating-new-diamond-predicted-be-harder-jeweler-s-diamond\">http:\/\/thescienceexplorer.com\/technology\/scientists-are-crea...-s-diamond<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all my Lab friends who utilize Spectrometers, drill bit fans as well as many of us QC fans. A new stronger syn. diamond being developed. But you won\u2019t find this diamond on any engagement rings \u2014 it will help cut through ultra-solid materials on mining sites. Step aside, girls. Diamonds may now be a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65598,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619\/revisions\/65598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}