Today, September 13th is National Peanut Day! Did you know it is possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds?
A German geophysicist named Dan Frost from the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany researched how crystalline structures formed thousands of kilometers below our feet. Frost's experimentation involves using the highest amounts of pressure to crush rocks using extremely powerful machinery. Frost and his team discovered found a way to make diamonds from carbon dioxide, and believe it or not, with the lunchbox favorite, peanut butter. But why the jar of Skippy?
Frost and his team pressurize the carbon-rich peanut butter, a million times more than the air we breathe, and then heat it to temps found deep beyond the surface of the Earth. An experiment that surprisingly did manage to alter the crystal structure of the carbon to form a diamond.
Though this experiment sounds exciting, you won't be able to create a diamond in your kitchen as they take an extremely long time to form let alone the highly advanced pressurizing machinery. So we'll leave the pressurizing of peanut butter to Frost and his team.
Learn more about Dan Frost here.
A German geophysicist named Dan Frost from the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany researched how crystalline structures formed thousands of kilometers below our feet. Frost's experimentation involves using the highest amounts of pressure to crush rocks using extremely powerful machinery. Frost and his team discovered found a way to make diamonds from carbon dioxide, and believe it or not, with the lunchbox favorite, peanut butter. But why the jar of Skippy?
Frost and his team pressurize the carbon-rich peanut butter, a million times more than the air we breathe, and then heat it to temps found deep beyond the surface of the Earth. An experiment that surprisingly did manage to alter the crystal structure of the carbon to form a diamond.
Though this experiment sounds exciting, you won't be able to create a diamond in your kitchen as they take an extremely long time to form let alone the highly advanced pressurizing machinery. So we'll leave the pressurizing of peanut butter to Frost and his team.
Learn more about Dan Frost here.