How are diamonds formed in a lab(I am having trouble understanding the diamond seed)?
In: Chemistry
You know those little magnet balls that stick together? Imagine each of those balls is a carbon atom. They can stick together in all sorts of different patterns and form endless different shapes.
If you pick up a clump of those magnets and ball them up, pushing in from all directions, if you push hard enough any gaps will be forced out and you’ll be left with a clump of magnets very tightly packed together.
That’s how they make diamonds in a lab. They get a big machine to push down and a bunch of carbon atoms and force them so tightly together they form a crystalline structure…. a diamond.
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