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Since diamonds are made of carbon can humans be made into diamonds too?
I was just thinking that when I die I would want to be turned into a diamond and sold at Zales for $100,000,000,000
9 Answers
- Gary CLv 79 years ago
Yes, and in fact, there are companies that turn human remains into diamonds for a fee.
First the person is cremated. Cremated human bodies (ashes) are mostly carbon. Then the makers apply a lot of heat and pressure to the ashes, which turns the carbon into a diamond. This is more of an industrial-grade diamond than one that would sell for millions, or even thousands, of dollars on the jewelry market, though. But if you want to wear some of Grandpa on your finger in a ring, that's the way to do it.
Source(s): http://jewelry.about.com/cs/syntheticdiamonds/a/li... http://www.lifegem.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwvv3Mtthdg http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/0... http://www.yourmemorydiamond.com/ - JORGE NLv 79 years ago
Dream on. By the time we are able to be of use again man will probably no longer be dependent of us for his energy. Carbon will probably be of no use anymore. In the end if we are lucky and man has returned to the utilization of carbon for his energy needs we may be lucky enough to be sucked up out of the ground and turned into some spirit and then to be turned into spirit like smog to rise and join the clouds. If any of us make it to the state of being like a diamond it probably won't be anyone I know. Too high for me. But if you want my opinion I would say that Mahatma Gandhi was an example of a living diamond. There have been many rare gems amongst us but they didn't shine as brightly I think.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
Diamonds are in fact organic carbon. we are made up regularly of hydrocarbons and water - that's somewhat distinctive in makeup from diamonds. you will possibly could desire to purify the carbon on your physique (in all probability via baking at extreme temperature, or consistent with possibility some comparable technique that's punctiliously damaging to the physique). it would be much greater costly than that's worth. - Jim
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- Anonymous9 years ago
In that case almost everything can be turned into diamond. And what will happen when you change into diamond? You will be worn in jewelries in necklaces and earrings in people's ears. Of course you can't be changed into a diamond. You will be decomposed in the earth and be part of it one day.
- bigcherrybombLv 79 years ago
yeah they can do that, you can also be put into bullets so you can go on that last hunting trip.