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Can any chemical melt diamond

Updated: 8/9/2023
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16y ago

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Diamonds are the hardest known natural material (from Carbon) and with a melting point of over 3500`c it would be pretty much impossible to melt one down. Only another diamond can scratch a diamond but it wont melt it.

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8y ago

Yes. Diamond is about five times better than copper for conducting heat.

(This could be an expensive lab experiment.)

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13y ago

if you mean

will diamond melt as ice?

no

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9y ago

Yes. Diamond can only melt at very high temperatures of 700 degrees and above

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when heated to 4800 degrees centigrade

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Yes.

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Why can you melt a diamond?

You can melt a diamond, because anything can melt given enough heat. Diamond, however, has the highest melting point of any known mineral: 3820 degrees Kelvin, 6416.33 degrees Fahrenheit, or 3546.85 degrees Celsius.


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Does a real diamond melt through solid ice?

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