Room-Temperature Diamonds

Room-Temperature Diamonds

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1495 , Segment 6

Transition in Crisis, 6-Foot Rule, Volcano Guilt

Episode: Transition in Crisis, 6-Foot Rule, Volcano Guilt

  • Dec 21, 2020 9:00 pm
  • 15:00 mins

Although humans have known for at least 50 years how to make diamonds in a laboratory, scientists at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have figured out how to make diamonds at room temperature in minutes. Dougal McCulloch, a physics professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, explains how it happens.