Can peanut butter turn in to diamonds?

Answer 1

It might be possible to change peanut butter into diamond, but it would probably have to be done in a lab. Diamond, an allotrope of carbon, is formed in an environment of heat and great pressure. We can make diamonds by the compression of carbon around a diamond "seed" in a huge press that is heated. But heating peanut butter to "reduce" it to carbon would probably result in it burning (if it was done in air), or pyrolizing (if it was done away from air). The first would allow the carbon to "get away" and the latter would see it form compounds that would "resist" allowing the carbon to form diamond crystals.

If we treated the peanut butter chemically to isolate the carbon, we could use that to create a diamond in the press we mentioned before. This question might be designed to cause a student to think about peanut butter, specifically about the chemistry of this substance. There is a fair amount of carbon in peanut butter, but it is chemically chained up with other elements to make up organic molecules. Heating and compressing peanut butter without isolating the carbon would probably just make a mess in the press. But the carbon in peanut butter is the same as the carbon in a diamond. Carbon is carbon. It's just that in diamond, the atoms of carbon have been forced into lattice, and it takes a lot of heat and pressure to make that happen.

Answer 2

Yes. It is actually not that surprising, as almost anything containing carbon could have the carbon converted into diamond using high pressures (ten thousand times higher than athmospheric pressure) and temperatures above 1000 C.

Under the right conditions, the carbon atoms in the source substances (such as sugar, peanuts, methane, paraffin wax, graphite,...) will be converted into diamond, which is the crystalline form of carbon. Non-carbon parts will remain as residue and or partially incorporated in the diamond crystal lattice as impurities.

Answer 3

Making peanut butter into diamond is a bit of a job. But it can probably be done. The trick with current technology is to chemically treat the peanut butter to recover the carbon in it, and then put the carbon into a huge heated press around a diamond seed to allow the diamond to form.

It is not likely that we can change peanut butter "directly" into diamond with the current methods we use to create artificial diamonds. If we put the "squeeze" on peanut butter in one of the big presses, it'd probably just make a mess, and the carbon in peanut butter is "not available" to form diamond crystals. See the related question, which is linked below.

Answer 4

Yes, peanut butter can be turned into diamonds. This was first accomplished in 2007, and then successfully recreated in Germany at the Bayerisches Geoinstitute in 2014. It involved putting peanut butter in between two other diamonds, then applying great amounts of heat and pressure, much like the conditions in the earth's lower mantle. There are large amounts of hydrogen released during the process, but the carbon in the peanut butter does turn into a diamond, although an impure one. It is not the type of procedure that can be recreated at home, but it is possible.

Answer 5

No diamonds are naturally created by earth

Answer 6

Sorry to inform you, but this is an urban myth. Diamonds are not formed from peanut butter.

Answer 7

yes ,it can be converted into a diamond

Answer 8

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