Maybe hospital drills, or microscopes, or blades? I need confirmation here. Please answer quickly, I would love your help. (!!!) It is for a homework assignment, and I have to go to bed at 9:30, I can’t find anything on search engines.
Diamonds are used in industry for cutting things and other uses. Here’s a quote form the Mineral Information Instite:
Diamond forms at extremely high temperatures and pressures, conditions that are only possible very deep in the Earth’s crust or even the upper mantle. Large diamonds, particularly large diamonds without flaws, are extremely rare. These flawless diamonds are very valuable as gemstones. The vast majority of diamonds are small, flawed and colored by dark impurities. These impure diamonds are used in industrial uses.
Industrial diamonds make up more than half of the world’s production by weight.
And a little more:
Because it is the hardest substance known, diamond will cut through any material. Consequently, it is used as an abrasive and in cutting and grinding applications. Industrial diamonds are embedded in large steel drill bits to drill into rock for wells to find water, oil, and natural gas. It is also important in the manufacture of machinery for drilling and cutting metal machine parts.
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Diamonds are used in industry for cutting things and other uses. Here’s a quote form the Mineral Information Instite:
Diamond forms at extremely high temperatures and pressures, conditions that are only possible very deep in the Earth’s crust or even the upper mantle. Large diamonds, particularly large diamonds without flaws, are extremely rare. These flawless diamonds are very valuable as gemstones. The vast majority of diamonds are small, flawed and colored by dark impurities. These impure diamonds are used in industrial uses.
Industrial diamonds make up more than half of the world’s production by weight.
And a little more:
Because it is the hardest substance known, diamond will cut through any material. Consequently, it is used as an abrasive and in cutting and grinding applications. Industrial diamonds are embedded in large steel drill bits to drill into rock for wells to find water, oil, and natural gas. It is also important in the manufacture of machinery for drilling and cutting metal machine parts.
this is dorky. Diamonds are used to shear DNA in some sequencing techniques.
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