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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."'"
a project with lots of Tequila involved.
Maybe tequilla is a lot cheaper than even denatured alchohol in Mexico.
Or maybe they just needed an excuse to be able to bill Tequila to their lab expense account!
You mean "200 containers of refined 40% alcohol-based development solution" placed on order from its Mexican manufacturing plant :P
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
Why use tequila instead of vodka?
Because tequila is cheaper in Mexico?
What the hell are diamonds good for?
Enslaving people over a rock as common as the pebbles in your front yard.
Yeah, but nothing downstairs will work. ;-)
but this is the first informative I read in this thread.
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
You just don't get it.