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Kit
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: We must find a better way! |
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| Am I alone when I laugh each time I find myself crushing diamonds and emeralds into powder? Probably not. While It makes me feel like superman, it's always very tedious. Can we possibly get some sort of technological way to crush gems into powder form? Yet another reason to spend my life in a lab....blasting ions into gems to destablize their structure and puff em into powder. |
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HR-Drake
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Handheld supercolliders?
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Kit
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Ooh, nice. A converted gem tumbler. |
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Enverdi
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We could have a mechanical egg beater of sorts...something that has a base you can put a bowl (or mortar) in, and a socket for a pestle...put things in and crusheroonie!
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Kit
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Enverdi wrote: |
| We could have a mechanical egg beater of sorts...something that has a base you can put a bowl (or mortar) in, and a socket for a pestle...put things in and crusheroonie! |
I'm in desperate need of something that might blow up. |
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dragonseyes
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| I have laughed every time I crushed a diamond by hand. I mean, I can't crush a diamond with a sledge hammer, but I can with a mortar and pestle. Wow!! |
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HR-Hunter
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I mean, I can't crush a diamond with a sledge hammer, but I can with a mortar and pestle. |
Ever tried  ? While very hard, diamonds also brittle and breakable without needing an extravagant amount of force. Scientifically speaking hardness isn't equal to resistance to breaking, hardness is it's ability to resist deforming before breakage. Glass is harder then steel, it's actually not unrealistic at all. It's just that most people don't go around buying expensive diamonds and crushing them into nearly worthless dust, so people don't have first hand knowledge.
P.S. I don't have anything against a power-mortar type thing, just pointing out sciencey goodness.
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Xavain
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| HR-Hunter, Where did you find your avitar? |
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Enverdi
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Looks like sinfest, but I may be wrong.
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HR-Hunter
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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I stole it from somebody on the KoL boards. 
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Brokyn
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And they stole it from someone on Livejournal. What goes around comes around.
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HR-Hunter
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Ok, I feel better now then, at least I didn't steal it from the person who went through the effort to make it, heh.
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