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A Step Toward the Diamond Age

Posted by timothy on from the blazing-8-mm-per-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Carnegie Institution researchers have learned to produce 10-carat, half-inch thick diamonds at rates of about 100 micrometers per hour, which in the diamond biz is blazingly fast. And these aren't cruddy, yellow diamonds either, but gem-quality stones. The goal: A 300 carat beast in whatever shape they want."

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  1. first post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST! :)

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