geology - What size would a diamond made from a human be ...
2017年11月22日 · Assuming a lossless process where every atom of carbon is used in the resulting diamond this would result with a 4500 cm^3 diamond. In the real world nothing is a lossless conversion. Memorial diamonds are being created by either using the cremated remains, or carbonized hair as the carbon source to create a lab grown diamond.
economy - Medieval gem values - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
This would give a base diamond value of about 5 shillings for an average 1 carat stone. Amethyst was a very valuable gem back then, said to be valued equally with diamonds. This source is somewhat suspect, however, due to placing amethyst above ruby in value, so let's go slightly lower, with a value of 4 shillings for a 1 carat stone.
What would a mountain and desert made out of diamond, glass, …
2023年11月22日 · If those engineers didn't cut any facets into the diamond mountain, it would look like a gigantic piece of what you saw when you clicked on The Raw Stone link, above. But if the engineers took the time to chisel those mountains so that facets were everywhere, what they'd look like after you put some sunglasses on would be a brilliant mind ...
To what uses would adamant, a rare stone-like material that is ...
2023年7月10日 · Adamant is a stone-like material that is literally unbreakable (under normal conditions). Its native form is a sphere, typically about a millimeter in diameter. Under very high temperatures (achieved somewhat readily by skilled magicians) it becomes malleable and can be merged into larger units merely by contact.
materials - If natural diamond was large and abundant how would …
Although diamond is extremely hard, it is also quite brittle, so I don't think that any large cutting tool could be fashioned from solid diamond that isn't already made (and more durably) from industrial diamond specks bound to metal substrates. I could imagine diamond being a luxury building material, like other polished stone slabs and blocks.
Could stone be used in place of metal for certain items?
A 1/8" layer of steel is effective in combat as armor. a 1/8" layer of stone in combat may be very easily shattered. This also means stone things will typically weigh much more, simply because they have to be thicker to have the mechanical properties. Because stone doesn't bend, any errors in the final finish tend to lead to chips.
science based - Would mountains made of diamond erode?
2017年4月30日 · Mountains are formed by geological forces many orders of magnitude more powerful than what is used to cut a stone, so you wouldn't ever get even a small hill of it. If you have a large content of diamond in a substrate, it will more likely become a flat desert made of small diamonds and diamond dust.
Is a diamond sword feasible? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2019年5月10日 · Or a diamond coated blade. On a much smaller scale, diamond blades are used in laboratories, not as grit for grinding purposes - but as single atom thick (ideally, but in practice a few atoms thick at the edge) blades for slicing samples real thin - or as a diamond knife in a surgical procedure called radial keratomy (since the 1950's).
technology - How "advanced" can a stone age society get ...
2016年9月7日 · Stone cutting wheels are still made of bitumenized cloth, loaded with mineral abrasives. I do carve stone, and for detail polishing I use rubber blocks filled with corundum powder. Natural latex and powdered diamond? A note on sophistication - I am led to understand that the mesoamerican cultures produced aspheric lenses.
Would it make any difference If I use diamonds as arrowheads?
2018年7月11日 · No, they would be far worse, diamond is dull and brittle. Diamond cannot be made sharp like flint or obsidian, diamond has a regular crystalline structure, but flint is a amorphous glass, it has no crystal lattice, so it forms conchoidal fracture, which is what gives flint and obsidian such super sharp edges.