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minus-squareAkintudnelinkfedilinkEnglish38•2 years agoYeah. How small are they if we turn their ashes into synthetic diamonds?
minus-squareSippy CuplinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoOk, so each person is a little less than 20% carbon, so a pile of 177 bodies would contain about 2000 kilos of carbon. A 1 carat round cut diamond has 0.2 grams of carbon and is about 5mm in diameter. So what is that, 2 million diamonds? It would be a pile about the size of a car?
Yeah. How small are they if we turn their ashes into synthetic diamonds?
Ok, so each person is a little less than 20% carbon, so a pile of 177 bodies would contain about 2000 kilos of carbon.
A 1 carat round cut diamond has 0.2 grams of carbon and is about 5mm in diameter.
So what is that, 2 million diamonds? It would be a pile about the size of a car?