Hacker News with Generative AI: Diamonds

The six strongest materials on Earth are harder than diamonds (bigthink.com)
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
Materials Science, Diamonds, Science, Physics
4 points by PaulHoule 14 days ago | 0 comments
You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba (arstechnica.com)
In an age when you can get just about anything online, it's probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba.
E-commerce, Diamonds, Technology, China
53 points by ksec 255 days ago | 35 comments
Lab-Grown Diamonds (worksinprogress.co)
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.
Diamonds, Science, Technology, Sustainability
18 points by atlasunshrugged 260 days ago | 1 comments
The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana (text.npr.org)
Diamonds, Botswana, Geology, Mining
12 points by mooreds 273 days ago | 4 comments
Detecting diamonds with X-ray technology(2014) (fraunhofer.de)
X-ray Technology, Diamonds, Science
14 points by ano-ther 274 days ago | 3 comments
The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana (ynetnews.com)
Diamonds, Botswana, Geology
14 points by surume 274 days ago | 23 comments
UK mining giant to offload De Beers diamond business (bbc.com)
Business, Mining, Diamonds, United Kingdom
13 points by e2e4 374 days ago | 7 comments
Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes (charmingscience.com)
Science, Materials Science, Diamonds, Nanotechnology
60 points by dargscisyhp 392 days ago | 61 comments