How To Make A Diamond
Learn the intricacies of how to make a diamond
The use of diamond for industrial use is problematic. There were similar, but very expensive to create. The diboruro rhenium does not require great pressure. Under the complicated name “diboruro rhenium” hides a material that is threatening to take away the throne himself to the hardness of diamond.
The industrial use of diamond has many complications: To date, the diamond is the hardest material is known, on the basis of which is used as an abrasive and as a tool for cutting other hard materials in conventional industry, but outside of its high price, there are other complications for their use, such as that cannot be used to cut anything containing iron, because in doing so creates iron carbide, which damages the diamond blade.
The researchers have managed to build over the years various compounds similar hardness, but for the creation of which we must exert great pressure, making the process is very costly and many drawbacks.
And creating enormous hardness simpler But the problems of researchers may have come to an end thanks to diboruro rhenium, a compound that has a huge density of electrons and strong covalent bonds-that is, bonds that are created when several atoms share electrons, thus that makes it tough to compete with the diamond without the problems that it offers, as UCLA researchers have found.
Gigapascales a hardness of 48 achieved at ambient pressure: As recounts the scientific journal Nature, the materials are difficult to compress because they contain a large amount of electrons that repel other electrons, making it necessary enormous pressure to unite compounds, the peculiarity of this material is that, despite the density that is not needed for this enormous pressure to offer a hardness of about 48 gigapascales, far from the nearly 100 of the diamond, but enough to compete with that until now was the second in question: the boron nitride.
