fossilesque@mander.xyz to Physics@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 months agoForget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutescharmingscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareDestroyer of Worlds 3000@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoI want diamond optics for my camera, unless that is stupid for the physics of optics.
minus-squareCookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoDiamond doesn’t have the best absorption spectrum compared to high quality optical glass. You’d end up losing more light.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoPretty sure the lines of cleavage would make it pretty difficult to get a useful lense shape made out of the stuff.
I want diamond optics for my camera, unless that is stupid for the physics of optics.
Diamond doesn’t have the best absorption spectrum compared to high quality optical glass. You’d end up losing more light.
Pretty sure the lines of cleavage would make it pretty difficult to get a useful lense shape made out of the stuff.