Not only do you need to exert a lot of pressure on the graphite, you also need to put a lot of heat into it as well.

Not only do you need to exert a lot of pressure on the graphite, you also need to put a lot of heat into it as well.

Chinese anvil: Made from questionable steel or iron. Soviet anvil: Made from Stalin's moustache.

I think you should try During HPHT, pure carbon is pressed within a metal cube and exposed to immense heat and pressure through electric pulses. Eventually, the carbon breaks down and crystallises into a diamond. Any metal traces within a HPHT diamond will be minuscule and usually not visible to the naked eye

Clue: No it doesn't.

So 2 heated plugs one from top one from bottom....then squish them together

Tungston too brittle...

Use a spring on bottom to lift the cylinder, but put a plug on bottom and top, then crush from both ends at same time....the spring will keep cylinder suspended until both plugs are crushed inside..hope it wont explode.

The cat mewing!?

One piston from bottom..one from Top if possible better

I would recommend an inductive heater - pretty easy to make and works with steel - for the chamber heating.

I was thinking... induction for heat and perhaps fire a canon ball for the "pressure"?

The importance of this experience isn't the amount produced but just to show that it's theoretically possible and what conditions are required. Once you figure that out, it's possible to devise more efficient ways to achieve those results.

Nice video, and I get the point, but does it really matter if you are using it for usual work. I mean it's not as if the inferior one is in anyway lesser in regard to the pressure it can take from someone using the anvil.

Now lets make some bigger less yellow rocks

Mistakes made: Where do I begin? 🤨🙄😑🤦

Use Carbon Black either mixed with or without Graphite. Try forming the material into a large solid piece with the press gently, then heat that large piece to over 1200 degrees. Quickly put it into the steel hole attached to copper wires then press. Just an idea but you might get larger diamonds or more of them.

Okay, Kimberlite...

You miss 3 times the power so you need another press on east and west and another in South and north.

Are you sure they have not been there before?

Diamond sandpaper. That's what makes the most sense to me.

12:45

Arc Wielding. Like sword wielding but different.

you cant compress carbons into diamonds using linear pressure. the diamonds made in labs are made inside atmospheric chamber. similar to how you compress and harden carbon fibres.

I find it funny that you have a very high-end press and a $10 pair of calipers.

I enjoyed the background music more than the video....can someone send the link for the background music?

You need a seed diamond first also you need a lot of heat. Just pressing it won’t generate enough heat, additionally it takes hours to produce small diamonds so you’re not making diamonds this way.

Along with the electric arc welder try heating up everything in an open crucible before adding the pressure. Once glowing hit the pressure and leave it on for about 30 minutes, you should be able to get the atmospheric pressure and temps coupled with the time might get you to diamond.

Hollywood, as always with any American s*t, learn from the russian proper press

The Green Anvil may have been made out of "Ductile Cast Iron", like pistons in Hydraulic Cylinders, so they deform before they fail, where the "Grey Cast Iron" would crack way before that.... One possibility....

Tumbler sand is what I think it would be good in.

Woohoo! you're rich now big guy! Pizzas on you!🤣

Perhaps sand paper or cutting wheels for hard material like tungsten

11:25 Your problem is not heat or pressure, it that your cat is mooing like a cow. LOL

"Don't try this at home" like anyone has a 100 ton press at home.

I think it's fantastic rather than get my wife. A large diamond ring. I will get her a $20 coupon toward finding a 500 ton press. And somebody who would make her a diamond.

Freaken' Cats!

Good content money well spent thankyou

How has a hydraulic press at home?😂

Be careful about tungsten carbide, there was an experiment with rats that got tungsten carbide under their skin and they got cancer from it, pretty fast actually.

Chinese steel

Considering that anvils are hammered on by humans with a hammer this experiment is pointless.

Nanobot Lasers for clearing away the blood vessels of cholesterol. ;)

Those diamonds could be used to make a diamond file

Love the part where the cat noses her way into the video!

Like Chinese housing, tofu builds they call them, made of plaster instead of concrete.

I think the current would have shorted through the structure of the press and not the chamber with the graphite

Try again using a cataliseur.

As demonstrated by carbon vapor deposition CVD diamond formation, the temperature is more critical for the creation of a diamond molecular matrix than pressure.

Small diamonds make excellent abrasives.