Home-made diamonds
While the rest of the world has been craning its neck to catch a glimpse of Sputnik orbiting the planet, a group of scientists back on the ground have been looking the other way. Withdrawing from the mysteries of space, they have cast their minds down 240 miles into the depths of the Earth. There, the pressure is enormous and the temperatures believed to be higher than 5000 °F. And, in a sealed chamber which duplicates these conditions, this handful of scientists from General Electric’s metallurgical products department have aped nature and made diamonds.
Sixty thousand carats were…
