When people first settled Nördlingen, Germany, they thought they were living in a volcanic crater. But the unique landscape was formed by something otherworldly.
Diamonds are used in the construction industry, but for drilling and cutting. They are too expensive and thus would be impractical to use as a building material.
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Well, buildings in this German town were built using stones embedded with tiny diamonds.
Check out these researchers who figured a way to make plastic and other building materials almost as hard as diamonds.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90433748/were-on-the-verge-of-making-buildings-as-strong-as-diamonds
Diamond is hard but very brittle and will break easily under the right conditions.
Diamonds are used in the construction industry, but for drilling and cutting. They are too expensive and thus would be impractical to use as a building material.
It’s a thing – The diamond is left inside a growing cell until it reaches the desired size. The longer you wait, the larger the diamond becomes.
…and here is how it’s done. Weird.
People do this now.
Or use the laser to defelct it into an orbit where we can mine it easier? Just an idea.
this is being tested atm.