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Wow your boorish snobby friends with a ring made from solid C-12 -- lab-grown, laser-cut & custom-made, of course, to your size and specifications.
And hopefully your fingers won't get frostbite from all that ice.
How to make a diamond
http://www.amnh.org...amonds/growing.html
To get you started. [nihilo, May 23 2006]
Man-made diamonds
http://www.usatoday...made-diamonds_x.htm
[nihilo, May 23 2006]
Bigger & blingier
http://ltc.smm.org/buzz/node/1064
See poignant comments at bottom by "anonymous". [nihilo, May 23 2006]
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It would be painfully obvious that it is man-made and would have as much Wow factor as serving the mimosas in steins. |
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Being man-made makes it no less sparkly. It IS still diamond, after all. And it's still likely to be incredibly expensive, possibly affordable only to a smattering of meretricious hotel heiresses, and their ilk. At least until the price of personal home universal matter replicators comes down. |
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It is still diamond, yet it is not the real thing. Just like the meretricious hotel heiresses you mention. |
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Would not a rose, lab-grown, laser-cut and custom-made, still smell as sweet? |
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By any other name, yes. Yet Prada, Gucci, Bentley, Moet, Omega, and a few others would disagree with you. |
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Slam your hand down on the table and your ring shatters. Diamonds are hard, but not all that tough. |
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Yes, yes: care should always be taken to avoid slamming one's hand on tables, or in car doors, against brick walls, etc. |
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Perhaps a large yellow warning label affixed to the 100% diamond ring may help to prevent such mishaps? |
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Women who buy these rings are not the kind to slam their hands on tables. |
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No, I didn't think so, either. |
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I had this idea myself a while back - make the ring out of crystal (diamond, sapphire, amethyst, whatever...) and add small details of gold and/or silver.
<aside>(Personally, I think using expensive materials is over-rated. A ring made of stainless steel with a polycarbonate 'jewel' would look just as good, but far less prone to damage)</aside> |
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You mean you don't drink mimosas out of steins? I have a friend who will be sorry to learn that, he makes his in flower vases. |
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Mimosas are to steins like:
a) Britney Spears is to parenting
2) Aforementioned meretricious hotel heiresses are to decorum
III) 100% diamond rings are to fish |
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did 'eats, shoots & leaves' say anything about a, 2, III? |
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You can't get an owl to finish doing the
laundry…
…leaves sheets, and hoots. |
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Just like to pipe in and say "meretricious" again. |
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Let's not forget "smattering". I know I can't. |
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I like this, if for no other reason than it being high-tech. |
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/Women who buy these rings are not the kind to slam their hands on tables./ |
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I would have thought the opposite. |
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Why? Judging by the frailty of some of the expensive fashion accessories and jewellery I have seen, the target demographic for these products must be a very measured bunch. |
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I guess I just thought that the personality associated with spending all that money on such a selfish extravagance would be the same personality that would slam hands on tables in toddler-like tantrums. |
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That's why we have house boys and personal slaves. I would never dare think of slaming my own personal fragile appendage on to some filthy countertop. Please. |
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You there! Slam your hand on this table immediately. That's a good chap, now go fetch me another mimosa. |
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I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea! Long have I wondered if someone else would ever think of it. [+] |
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Stud it with some gold nodules. |
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insert a shiny stainless ring into the 'ring' portion of the diamond. this will not be visible when the ring is worn, but will add immense strength and act as a reflector for incoming light (which may otherwise be absorbed by hand meat, decreasing the overall luster). |
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//insert a shiny stainless ring// I think
this is very unlikely to help appreciably,
since the Young's modulus (stiffness,
crudely) is about 1/5th that of diamond
(depending on the steel). Hence, the steel
will flex and the diamond will crack. It's a
bit like trying to reinforce a sheet of glass
by bonding it to a strong sheet of rubber. |
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Hey [MaxwellBuchanan], you just described blast proof glass (the "rubber" is PVB, though). The diamond will still smash, but the ring might remain in one piece. |
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Make the inner, metal ring a Metal Matrix Composite if you want, but it'll be more brittle. |
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Just for the ironic effect, have a piece of 24 kt hold shaped like a "diamond" attached to where the diamond would have been on a gold ring. |
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There are definite new aesthetic possibilities with this. |
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[Max]: you'd want the steel to be relatively flexible i think. that would allow the load (of the incoming deformation) to be spread out over the entire inner perimeter of diamond, rather than just one spot as it would be if the insert was composed of something less flexible than diamond. perhaps this steel band could be used to 'pretension' the diamond with an outward force. |
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of course, i really have no clue if this would help - i'm just guessing. diamonds, despite their amazingly strong 3-d lattice, just seem a little too brittle to serve as structural members on anything above the micro scale. |
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Well, maybe they could fabricate a chain of these interlocking solid-diamond-rings and sell it for a million dollars. |
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