Can you make diamonds from peanut butter

Every so often, Dan Frost hears a dull thud and his office floor vibrates. It can only mean one thing: one of his experiments has exploded again. Making his way downstairs to his lab, he finds the shock is written on the faces of his colleagues still in the lab. From where they were working, it felt like a small bomb had exploded, and their pupils are still dilated with fear.

The odd explosion is part of the job. That involves crushing rocks to some of the highest pressures known to humankind; little wonder there are the odd mishaps. As part of this work, Frost has found some surprising ways to make diamonds — from carbon dioxide for instance.

And peanut butter. Yes, peanut butter. Compared to our enormous advances in space exploration , we still know precious little about the world lying beneath our feet. Pumpkins are a member of the berry family. We know, what?!?! Lava can flow as fast as a greyhound runs.

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It takes the International Space Station 92 minutes to orbit Earth. Dinosaurs are not really extinct. The average person walks enough in a lifetime to circle the globe three times. Peanut butter diamonds!? Soooo apparently , given the right conditions, peanut butter can be turned into diamonds. Read below:. Here's what it will do.

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