Amazing! Peanut butter can turn into diamonds, under certain conditions

The incorrigible gluttons believe that some goodies are authentic treasures for how delicious they are, like the irresistible Nutella! Something that does not differentiate us much from scientists, although their interests are not directed precisely to the taste of such delicacies, because with a series of experiments they showed that peanut butter is, in addition to succulent, a real rough diamond .

We tell you how the experts managed to transform the peanut butter into this precious gem! And it was not by magic.

Incredible! Peanut butter can turn into diamonds, under certain conditions

A team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh got what we think is unusual and impossible: they turned a common and ordinary peanut butter into diamonds.But how did they do it?

" Pressure can cause extraordinary changes to any kind of materials and create completely new ones ," Professor Malcolm McMahon, a member of the Center for Science and Extreme Conditions, and one of those involved in the incredible exploration with which they made diamonds from a peanut butter told the BBC.This statement summarizes in essence the procedure applied by the research team.

In the lower mantle of the Earth the atmospheric conditions are infernal, the temperatures reach approximately two thousand 200 degrees Celsius and the pressure is 13 million stronger than those of the earth's mantle .This is only an estimate, because science has not yet been able to specify the real magnitude of what is encapsulated in the depths of the soil.

However, from the studies and innovations of the German geologist Dan Frost, the group of experts managed to simulate with a furnace the temperatures and particularities of the insides of the earth's crust to submit to them different materials, with a specific characteristic.The purpose? Prove if, by exposing them to extremely high pressure, it was possible that a "metamorphosis" occurred in their atoms and thus turn them into denser forms , as in the formation of diamonds.It was a success.

Diamonds are formed by carbon molecules , the same chemical element found in peanuts.Taking this fundamental similarity into account, with the help of special presses-made with two Parallel diamonds-and the high temperatures of the oven, the experts crushed the tasty delicacy and found the creation of small diamonds.

With such a discovery we would think that Frost and the group of experts could become magnates with manufacturing of luxurious minerals, but according to the specialist, it is not so simple , since creating them artificially takes a substantially long time .« If we wanted a diamond of two or three millimeters, we would have to leave it for weeks «, told BBC.

In addition, large amounts of hydrogen were released during the transformation, which led small explosions that are quite frequent and further delay the final result.

University of Edinburgh scholars continue with experiments of the same type to achieve better results.And as most foods contain carbon molecules, they have a vast array of alternatives to create diamonds from delicacies.Which other food will be found testing? Whatever the case, we will no longer see the peanut butter as we did in the past, now it is properly a potential gem that tastes really good !.

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