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Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds
MaxwellEdison writes "Researchers, oddly enough from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, have found a way to make diamond films using tequila. They were originally testing methods of creating the films with organic solutions like acetone when it was noticed the ideal ratios of water and ethanol turned out to be about 80 proof, or 40% alcohol. '"To dissipate any doubts, one morning on the way to the lab I bought a pocket-size bottle of cheap white tequila and we did some tests," Apátiga said. "We were in doubt over whether the great amount of chemicals present in tequila, other than water and ethanol, would contaminate or obstruct the process, it turned out to be not so. The results were amazing, same as with the ethanol and water compound, we obtained almost spherical shaped diamonds of nanometric size. There is no doubt; tequila has the exact proportion of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms necessary to form diamonds."'"
Diamonds make girls easier to sleep with; tequila makes girls easier to sleep with. We really should have seen this earlier.
Drinking too much of the tequilla beforehand might impact the observations.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This is good news. Shortly, you'll be able to use the same substance that got you into this mess, for the ring.
But now we'll have to protect these scientists, as well as tequila factories, lest DeBeers have them assassinated.
just like with using ethanol with food, how's this going to affect being an alcoholic?
As much tequila as I've put away in the past, I'm thinking I should have examined more closely the output from a recent bout with kidney stones...
Raging in an online forum won't do anything for the world around you. To see change, you must take action.
There goes the price of Tequila....
Some people are only alive because it's against the law for me to hunt them down and kill them.
I've been doing the reverse for years. I'm not even a scientist.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Once again, eggheads and their muddled brains. Ask yourself: Is that a good thing?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Ben Franklin
"Tequila is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy and rich" -- Jose Cuervo Sauza-Patron
Is that a Rolex?
No, it's an Anejo, you insensitive clod!
Just got caught with the tequila at work, and had to come up with an excuse quickly.
Umm... we're... um... um... trying to make diamond nanospheres with it! Yeah, diamond nanospheres! That's the ticket.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
I have personally turned tequila into many things. Including vomit and diarrhea.
Because the research was done at UNAM. And the only thing worse than cheap Mexican tequila is cheap Mexican vodka. Even the worms refuse to drown in it.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
Because the research was done in Mexico instead of Russia? Wonder if the Physics departments at various colleges in Kentucky are working on their proposals yet,,,
ATTENTION BREWERS: Promotional opportunity is knocking! Fund some physics reasearch.
is there nothing you can't do? From creating diamonds to making me forget my freshman (and most of my sophomore)year at college.
Good Times,good times...
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
Why would anyone waste good tequila on rocks? Call me back when someone can turn cheap beer into tequila.
You mean 201, you've got to keep one to actually do research with after all.
Professor: "Your supposed to be working on bourbon in the nano-rocks not bourbon on the rocks!"
GA: "We had to adjust the alcohol to water ratio, so we are slowly melting ice into the bourbon with frequent ratio checks."
Professor: "OK, carry on. Oh, and give me one for sampling purposes."
"vodka is proof god hates us and wants us to die."
--american dude morning after drinking with russians
Only in Mexico would you use the words "scientist" and "cheap tequila" in the same article.
Sigs? We don't need no steekin Sigs!
Too much Tequila always gives me buckyballs
...you Crazy Mexicans
You will never find a bottle of Tequila with a worm in it
I beg to differ. I put a worm in a bottle of Tequila then put it in my fridge. My parents promptly found it.
Can't you club the rubber seals? ;)
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