fossilesque to PhysicsEnglish · 7 months agoForget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutescharmingscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down13
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minus-squareDestroyer of Worlds 3000@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoI want diamond optics for my camera, unless that is stupid for the physics of optics.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·7 months agoPretty sure the lines of cleavage would make it pretty difficult to get a useful lense shape made out of the stuff.
minus-squareCookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoDiamond doesn’t have the best absorption spectrum compared to high quality optical glass. You’d end up losing more light.
I want diamond optics for my camera, unless that is stupid for the physics of optics.
Pretty sure the lines of cleavage would make it pretty difficult to get a useful lense shape made out of the stuff.
Diamond doesn’t have the best absorption spectrum compared to high quality optical glass. You’d end up losing more light.