What is DIAMOND?.... a
lattice of carbon atoms.
We are told that diamond is formed under high pressure and temperature, beneath Earth’s crust, then surfaces by volcanic activity. When did it form or how long did it take?
Obviously no-one
observed it but geologists say: 1 to 3.3 billion years – a big range.
Can you get your head around that?
Here is the Star
of Africa, a 530 carat diamond that now adorns the sceptre in the English Royal
Crown Jewels. It was cut from the largest diamond ever found, ‘The Cullinan’
(3106 carat, 0.6kgs) from the Premier Mine in South Africa in 1905.
Diamond can
be manufactured synthetically by a variety of processes and since it can be harder and more pure than the natural
stone it can be preferred for industrial use such as delicate transistor
manufacture.
Under controlled conditions how long does the manufacture of synthetic diamonds take?
It looks like chemists are embarrassed to say…… a matter of days at most!
Apparently an isotope of carbon, radiocarbon known as Carbon 14, can be detected in natural diamond (along with coal, oil, limestone, graphite, natural gas, marble, and fossils). So??
Carbon 14 has a ‘half- life’ of 5,730 years so it should be undetectable after only ~100,000 years.
Do you think
perhaps it would be better to rely on historians to tell us about history?Under controlled conditions how long does the manufacture of synthetic diamonds take?
It looks like chemists are embarrassed to say…… a matter of days at most!
Apparently an isotope of carbon, radiocarbon known as Carbon 14, can be detected in natural diamond (along with coal, oil, limestone, graphite, natural gas, marble, and fossils). So??
Carbon 14 has a ‘half- life’ of 5,730 years so it should be undetectable after only ~100,000 years.
Acknowledgements: wikipedia.com
Thanks go to Dr. John Anderson from Creation Ministries for drawing our attention to diamond. That still leaves graphite, coal, limestone, marble, fossils, oil, natural gas.....
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