so there's this trend going on on YouTube right now where apparently
people are trying to turn coal into diamonds using peanut butter and a bit
of ice at first when I saw this I was like there's no way like this has to be
one big joke can you really turn coal into diamonds using peanut butter kind
of what is happening this is inform overload I'm Charlotte Aubry and I'm
gonna tell you how to turn your knotty lump of coal from Santa into a diamond
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posted in the description of this video so not sure if any of you have lumps of
coal lying around I know a few of you are probably gonna get them in your
stocking because you've been rather naughty this year but anyways if you
have access to a lump of coal you're probably gonna try this trick
where people are trying to turn lumps of coal into crystals using peanut butter
coal and ice all right so let me just give you a little perspective here the
normal process for making diamonds is as follows
diamonds are created more than eight hundred kilometres or five hundred miles
below the surface of the earth you also need a lot of heat two thousand two
hundred and twenty degrees Celsius or four thousand degrees Fahrenheit plus a
ton of pressure and crystallized carbon the pressure that's needed is 1.3
million times greater than the atmosphere that's why diamonds are so
expensive hard to find and politically charged you can buy synthetic diamonds
that are created in a lab but these are worthless
so all these videos on YouTube that make the claim that you can turn a lump of
coal into a diamond using a jar of peanut butter and dry ice yeah there's
there's no way there are tons of videos on YouTube that show this experiment and
all of them are racking up thousands if not millions of views it all started
with a viral facebook video that shows simple instructions you know the ones
I'm talking about those like DIY videos that are really big on Facebook that
somehow you always end up watching because they are oddly mesmerizing the
viral video that spawned the trend is called ten tricks you didn't know you
could do with your food it has 279 million views at the time of this
recording the instructions are as follows heat cold thoroughly and dunk it
into a jar of peanut butter make sure the coal is fully coated all
over remove coal and place it into a bowl of ice cubes and then cover
with more ice freeze the coal in ice overnight remove the coal and put it
into a bath of lukewarm water rub off the charcoal and peanut butter to expose
the beautiful crystal inside sound too good to be true yeah that's because it
is you can't turn peanut butter into diamonds using a lump of coal and some
ice but before you get mad about this clickbait I will say that a scientist
Dan frost has been creating diamonds out of peanut butter the difference is he
recreated the environmental conditions needed to make diamonds peanut butter
just so happens to contain carbon heat plus pressure which rearranged the
carbon atoms into a dense configuration and then he added more pressure and a
diamond began to form and then Dan frost added acoustics so apparently the
pathway of the sound waves through the gem is comparable to seismic waves this
method takes weeks to produce a diamond that is three millimeters in diameter
that's a small diamond okay for all that work it's only about 0.25 carat stone so
you can actually create diamonds out of peanut butter but definitely don't try
this at home kids the hydrogen bonded to the carbon atoms
that are released after the diamond forms actually cause small explosions so
yeah definitely dangerous explosions they're bad definitely shouldn't try it
unless you're a scientist if you guys don't believe me why don't you check out
the BBC article that's posted in the description of this video so there's
actually more than one way to make gemstones using food you can grow a
gemstone by dissolving alum a chemical compound found at grocery stores in hot
tap water when you over saturate water with alum and pour the liquid into a
shallow dish and leave it overnight diamonds will grow and when I say
diamonds I mean crystals you can then take those crystals and create a crystal
farm if you will what I'm trying to get at is diamonds are expensive and they
cause a lot of trouble for a reason they are really really really hard to make
they are really hard to find moral of the story is don't believe everything
you see on the internet except me always believe me that is all I have for you on
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still be broken so no man no Anthony said hey Charlotte did you know that
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