Well now I want a gemstone collection that I can make into food in an emergency. I’ll set it into jewelry and walk around both beautiful and potentially delicious.
Thank you for this amazing mental picture.
But I don’t know the answer to your question. 🙂
No. Diamond is elemental carbon. You would need to burn your bouillon cubes (preferably without air) until they are black chunks of coal (mostly graphite), then press that. If you burn them in the presence of air, all the carbon goes as CO2 or CO. With so many impurities your diamonds may look really crappy. Also, don’t expect one big diamond but a bunch of really tiny ones in a big clump. Yeap, I suspect that’s not the mental picture you had.
I can’t answer your question – I mean I’m pretty sure the answer is no because of how close/dense the molecules can be, which is determined by the bond type – but I am very happy you asked it.
Please continue as you have been.
Probably not as dense as a diamond considering the impurities (aka chicken stock ingredients) unable to be atomically squeezed into a perfect atomic lattice structure whereas a diamond is a lattice of tightly packed carbon atoms. If you so happen to have a hydraulic press or a black hole nearby, throw a few in and see how you go.
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Well now I want a gemstone collection that I can make into food in an emergency. I’ll set it into jewelry and walk around both beautiful and potentially delicious.
Thank you for this amazing mental picture.
But I don’t know the answer to your question. 🙂
Bouillon Bouillionaire?
Sorry, very important, I forgot.
No. Diamond is elemental carbon. You would need to burn your bouillon cubes (preferably without air) until they are black chunks of coal (mostly graphite), then press that. If you burn them in the presence of air, all the carbon goes as CO2 or CO. With so many impurities your diamonds may look really crappy. Also, don’t expect one big diamond but a bunch of really tiny ones in a big clump. Yeap, I suspect that’s not the mental picture you had.
This is the kind of question I’m here for.
I can’t answer your question – I mean I’m pretty sure the answer is no because of how close/dense the molecules can be, which is determined by the bond type – but I am very happy you asked it.
Please continue as you have been.
Please, if you figure this out, let me know. I need bouillon jewelry ASAP.
I remember as a kid reading about making diamonds from peanut butter so I tried squishing pb as hard as I could.
Your question reminded me of that. Also good question.
You are not getting good answers. You need to ask the hydraulic press people to put this into action.Â
Just turn the bouillon 45 degrees, no squeezing required.
Probably not as dense as a diamond considering the impurities (aka chicken stock ingredients) unable to be atomically squeezed into a perfect atomic lattice structure whereas a diamond is a lattice of tightly packed carbon atoms. If you so happen to have a hydraulic press or a black hole nearby, throw a few in and see how you go.
If you put it in a diamond anvil cell (millions of atmospheres of pressure) you can probably compress it by about half
OP, I say this in the most inquisitive way possible, with no offense or insult intended whatsoever. How high are you?
The real question is how much pressure can you apply before it stops being chicken.