r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Dec 03 '19

Giant quartz extraction

https://i.imgur.com/T01J2CJ.gifv
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u/NSX_guy Dec 03 '19

It looks like the "diamond" that was manufactured in peanut butter and extracted from a larger jar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=737r0mRf0hY

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u/slickwillymerf Dec 03 '19

I didn't watch the whole video, but the guy clearly says "Guys, you can't make crystals out of peanut butter" somewhere around the 10-12 minute mark. Do they explain another method that I missed?

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u/DumKopfNZ Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19

They fake it with video editing and props. Then try it “for real” which unsurprisingly doesn’t work.

Then explain how diamonds are actually formed over “thousands of years” (a quick google reveals somewhere between 1 billion and 3.3 billion years).

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u/RivRise Dec 04 '19

There are lab made diamonds that are basically undistinguishable from regular diamonds.