Re: Diamond question

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:31:38 GMT, "hanson" <hanson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Helmut Wabnig" <hwabnig@ .- --- -. dot .- t> wrote in message
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Front Office <armistead_rap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone out there know when, and by
whom, it was determined that diamonds
consist of carbon?
thanks for any help.

"Helmut Wabnig" <hwabnig@ .- --- -. dot .- t> wrote:
Meyers Konversationslexikon von 1888 has this information
(Kohlenstoff)
Diamond had been considered beeing a kind of rock crystal quartz,
until Averami and Targioni demonstrated it's combustibility by placing
it in the focus of a large collecting mirror, and Lavoisier 1773
demonstrated the formation of carbonic acid from burning diamonds.
Mackenzie 1800 found that diamond yields the exact equal weight
of carbonic acid as coal or graphite, the latter often being mistaken
for molybdenite, until Scheele 1799 recognized it's real nature.
The first artificial diamond was made by Ballantyne Hannay 1880
in Glasgow.

hanson wrote:
Wabie, making diamonds must be an inherited trait because
one or more of these gents you mentioned must have been
relatives of uncle Anal Schwartz, (who according to his estranged
step-father Hebie-Herbie G=EMC^2, lives in Irvine) & claimed to
have made or is going to make kilogram sized gem diamonds
grown in his "devil solvent". So, uncle Al does know all about it.
ahahaha... ahahahanson


The Meyer from 1888 has some info on making artificial diamonds, too:

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The problem to create artificial diamonds was keeping chemists busy
for long time but all efforts failed because there could not be found
a solvent for carbon up to now (1888). Only recently Ballantyne
Hannay of Glasgow achieved that goal by heating carbon together with
magnesium in presence of a stable nitrogen compound under very high
pressure. The precipitating carbon takes the diamond structure.
-----------


So far so good. Will that information help Uncle Al?


http://www.lifegem.com/
Making diamond from dead people's ash carbon content.
Says the advertising on the German page:
http://www.lifegemeurope.com/duitsland/human/index.htm
Ein LifeGem® Erinnerungsdiamant ist ein zertifizierter Diamant hoher Qualität,
der mithilfe des in der Kremationsasche befindlichen Kohlenstoffs hergestellt wird.

For "Kremationsasche" read "cremation ash"
Hey, since when does ash contain carbon? <<-----------------?!

On the English page they do not specify "ash"
http://www.lifegem.com/

What is a LifeGem®?
The LifeGem® is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the
carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life,
or as a symbol of your personal and precious bond with another.

From where do they take the carbon?
Do we have to cut off a hand/foot/the ears of a dead corpse?
(Or other body parts, but do not become too perverse now)

w.
.

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