http://www.inventgeek.com/diamond-grease/ Invention Through Reinvention Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 http://www.inventgeek.com/diamond-grease/#comment-55263 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:05:38 +0000 http://beta.inventgeek.com/?p=189#comment-55263 Diamond is easily separated from other minerals. It loves to adhere oxygen to it’s surface, similar to the sooty egg experiment in highschool where the egg appears silver under water due to the layer of oxygen adhered to the soot. Thus diamond is not easily wetted in pure water. And since it is technically dry it will stick instantly to any substance like petroleum or silicon grease while quartz and everything else can not adhere to the grease since their surfaces are wet and they fall down the face of the greased glass plate and down to the bottom of the tank. In Namibian diamond processing facilities the sluce water with diamonds and trash gravel falls across a tilted, greased wheel. A scraper continues to scrape of the diamonds and grease as the wheel turns. The back side of the scraper applies fresh grease.
Or just buy diamond powder from a reputable jeweler supply and pass the extra cost to the grateful customer. We are geeks. We will spend anything to be better than everyone else.

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