﻿{"id":906,"date":"2011-10-26T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/?guid=c38e767595186c24a044328bd0b31362"},"modified":"2011-10-26T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:35:00","slug":"japanese-researchers-create-first-spherical-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2011\/10\/26\/japanese-researchers-create-first-spherical-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Researchers Create First Spherical Diamond!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I don&#8217;t know about you but can you imagine these in a necklace with South Sea Pearls?<\/span><\/i><\/b><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #164072; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 30px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #164072; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 30px;\">Japanese researchers say they created first perfectly spherical diamond<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #164072; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 26px; line-height: 30px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DdAcb9Y3YYs\/Tqdi9cyBgEI\/AAAAAAAAMPI\/nKS6octS3jg\/s1600\/38bada7034.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DdAcb9Y3YYs\/Tqdi9cyBgEI\/AAAAAAAAMPI\/nKS6octS3jg\/s1600\/38bada7034.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>A team of researchers at Ehime University in Japan say they have created the world&#8217;s first perfectly spherical diamond, according to a media report.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-content-inner\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(233, 231, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px;\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span>The state-run university&#8217;s Geodynamics Research Center said it has processed an artificially produced diamond, of a variety the center has named Hime, into a perfect four-carat sphere with a diameter of 7.5 millimeters.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span>The potential applications of the technology used to shape an artificial diamond into a perfect sphere are expected to be widespread, the researchers said in a report in The Daily Yomiuri.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span>In 2003, the research center synthesized a tiny grain of Hime diamond measuring less than 1 millimeter wide. The centre combined carbon atoms by subjecting them to 150,000 times the standard atmospheric pressure and temperatures of 2,300 C.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span>By last year, the research team had become able to create Hime diamonds up to 1 centimeter wide, they said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><span>Hime diamonds are far harder than naturally formed diamonds. They have a uniform degree of hardness throughout their structure, whereas this changes in different parts of a natural diamond, according to the centre.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\">From the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerpfacetsonline.be\/nc\/articles\/single\/article\/japanese-researchers-says-they-created-first-perfectly-spherical-diamond\/\"> Antwerp Facets Newsletter&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4698837677539896356-8667906260541741894?l=dailyjewel.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but can you imagine these in a necklace with South Sea Pearls?Japanese researchers say they created first perfectly spherical diamondA team of researchers at Ehime University in Japan say they have created the world&#8217;s first perfe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,8,411,413],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}