The Strange Mystery of the Black Diamond
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Have you heard of a black diamond? There's still a lot that's hazy about carbonados ("black diamonds")-geologists think those mystery rocks might even come from outside of Earth! Find out more in a new episode of SciShow, hosted by Michael Aranda!
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Carbonados: very durable mineral, most likly from space and found in Africa.
Are we sure it is not a real life Vibranium?
Get a job yah nerd 🤓
@@GnarDawgeh get a job ya unerd
@@dinosaurusrex1482 *Get a hobby ya unnerd
@@minhkhangtran6948 HAVE AT THEE KNAVE!
@@dinosaurusrex1482 oh, be kind, muggles don't even know what they are missing
"The Mystery of the Black Diamond", hey I remember that Scooby Doo Episode
And, Zorg the Destroyer, would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
@@mortimerhasbeengud2834 now, let's take his mask off and see who he really is
*gasp* It's Michael, the host of the show!
@@keithharper32 I was hoping it was Scrappy Doo, that annoying little loudmouth..
Always reminds me to this:
ua-cam.com/video/Tn58-Nl9NYw/v-deo.html
@@keithharper32 at least it wasn't Red Herring again.
Carbonados sound like something I could get at a Mexican restaurant.
Italian. Linguini Carbonaro!
Sounds like a restaurant
Nados al Carbon - my favorite! 👍
there's a chilean food called Carbonada
@@Pipeblau was about to comment that
Xenomorph? I sense heresy afoot.
Game over man, game over!
Weyland Yutani wants to know your location.
I can’t lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies.
I say we should logoff and nuke the entire UA-cam site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
emperor guide us... the inquisitor approaches
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of the Four"
Spock said: “An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution.” Star Trek VI, also quoted in Star Trek 2009.
María Martínez And I find it particularly entertaining that when BBC's Sherlock said that line, he was quoting Spock. I guess if Spock never mentioned Holmes by name then it checks out.
And I'm pretty sure Data used that quote and attributed it to holmes/doyle at some point
Literally scrolled the comments in hopes of finding someone that quoted this!
Acts like a duck, talks like a duck, and walks like a duck....must be a???? Chicken...yes, you are correct. LOL!
Back before Hollywood ruined Holmes.
I once bought a guitar made of black diamond. It played great hard rock and black metal.
You win the Internet
Damn it how do you keep making puns
Don’t get me started on tone crystal
Can I have my cookie ?
Check my chenel , Sir 🙏
Halfway through video: I will keep my eyes for carbonados during hiking next week...
SciShow guy: Only found in Brazil and Central Africa...
I'll keep my eyes for crystal as usual instead...
I can dig it.
This comment actually made me laugh
That name made me very suspicious it was something found in my country.
They said they are from space so just look for them were threre have been meteore impact.
Just because it's common in those areas doesn't mean they aren't everywhere. Theres meteor fragment everywhere. Hell the entire planet is made of rock from outer space
How does Michael manage to be both incredibly enthusiastic and really relaxing at the same time?
"The Mystery of the Black Diamond"
A tale full of murder and mystery, revenge and romance.
I have black diamond and I don't know how to sell it 😔
❤️😥
"But because carbonados are rarer than diamonds" so just sort of rare then? considering diamonds
Yup, diamonds aren't rare. There is just a monopoly.
I found a chunk of black mineral in my yard, I was getting all excited 'til that nope.
They mean naturally forming diamonds
@@jackscrack99 yes, they're dug up quite extensively in Africa I believe.
And it's actually quite expensive to form them industrially as you have to maintain huge pressures and temperatures for extended periods of time. Not exactly easy to mass produce.
blue and red diamonds are rare asf though (natural ones at least)
"In short, carbonados are the result of Ridley Scott becoming a jeweler."
Sounds pretty legit to me lol
I wanna see a giant carbonado etched with H.R. Giger's artwork
Stratovarius - Black Diamond hells yeah
Wait, so it (possibly) came from space, is very rare, very tough, and found in central Africa? It's Vibranium!
Wakanda forever!
Bring me THANOS!!!
this is an amazing coincidence
It’s not THAT tough, just tougher than normal Diamond. Metals are still far tougher
I've often thought that if I ever got married, I would want to give my bride-to-be a double black diamond engagement ring symbolic of how in ski resorts, while considered the most challenging runs, double black diamonds runs are often the most rewarding. Unless you crash and die.
Adam McGrath i can’t tell if that’s the most or least romantic idea for a ring XD
Make sure you include the "Unless you crash and die" part in your wedding vows. What bride wouldn't be thrilled ?
Bit of a violent way to end a marriage.
@@Night-Lord either way, it'll get him laid.
Well, till death do you part right?
what does she think of pink diamonds
3:01 - 3:11 Sounds like Wakanda to me...
You guys actually taught me something on geology. That’s incredible.
You explained beautifully and all my doubts regarding Carbanado got cleared. Thank you very much
*Hard AND tough carbon material, that is also black in color?*
"WHY GREED!? WHY WOULD YOU WOULD BETRAY YOUR OWN FATHER!?"
"I always had a rebellious streak pops, don't act so surprised. I've reversed the ultimate shield you gave me: and transformed your body into the most FRAGILE CARBON THERE IS!"
"Well, you know..." Hidden word: ALIENS
The line is "Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Xenomorph and alien within 5 seconds? Who else connected them instantly?
You were supposed to. It was literally written to make you think "Alien" cause of the name.
So, do these rocks also have
another *tiny little rock mouth*
that comes from inside of them? 🤔
@cak01vej I was actually kidding with my comment... 😉
But thank you very much for the really accurate and informative answer!
Spock said: “An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution.” Star Trek VI, also quoted in Star Trek 2009.
The finesse in how you added occam's razor into that video is spectacular 👍
We have planets in our solar system where it rains diamonds, and we know it's possible for impacts to eject material from one planet, only to have it fall on another. Maybe that's what happened?
Diamond rain occurs on Saturn and Jupiter, both of which have immense gravity. In order for an impact to have ejected material from their surface it would have have needed catastrophic force. I don't think a mere meteor impact could eject anything from their gravity wells. It would need to be something like a planet hitting them.
Which probably did not happen often. So that may explain the rarity. And the head-scratching. But most importantly does it rain carbonados there, because if it only rains regular diamonds, then the problem remains.
Scientist 1: "So, what's in that space rock?"
Scientist 2: "Xenomorphs!"
This was a really interesting and cool episode, and got all kinds of wheels spinning.
If carbonados are from space, we can find carbonados all over the
world.Black diamond or carbonado or black diamond from space is nitrogen
and hydrogen with other metal such as iron but diamond is pure
Carbon.The Wikipedia and gem guides show that the hardness of carbonado
called black diamond is 10 of Moh scale as diamond but the carbonado
called black diamond is really only 5 to 6 of hardness of Moh scale.
Cool video! I love that the most plausible explanation we have is 'it is not from this world'. Also, loved the quote at the end
Really good information about carbanado diamonds
- unusual formation
- theorized to come from space
- LITERALLY CALLED A XENOMORPH
How is this still a mystery?
Conspiracy theorist 😡
Thank you very helpful.
Someone absurdly rich has to make pasta carbonado, extremely expensive King Of Puns
She's the most powerful Diamond and also the one Pink Diamond likes to...
I tried making chicken carbonado but now i don't have any teeth. I don't think i followed the recipe right
"Hey Tim, I just found one of those uhhh black weird alien things... A Xenomorph"
"YOU WHAT"
REAL Xenomorphs from Outerspace is NOT what I expected from Sci Show, well...ever. Is it awesome! YES!!!!!!!🙀😀
I think that "Fracturing" would be a better word than "Shattering" in your description of Toughness as fracture is the term that is actually used in materials science, engineering, and metallurgy for specimen failure.
Speaking of black; could do an episode covering how these new ultra-black materials work?
This makes the comparative abundance of black diamonds on Pern even more amazing!
I like the hosts hand movement 😂 its fun.
My large carbonado diamond is cut into half i don't know what kind of tools the first owner used. As you said it's the hardest kind of diamond
I love spaghetti carbonados🍝🥰
the food is carbonated spaghetti, but it is easy to mix them up. Carbonados are stones, and carbonated spaghetti is the popular sports drink made with real spaghetti
Thank you sir
I was at the International Meteoritical Society conference in 1998, a presenter claimed that he found the location of the crater in Africa where he though Carbonado diamonds came from, he wanted people to join him on an expedition into the jungle. His talk went far over time and he had to be physically manhandled off the stage. Seems the quest for origin of Carbonado drove that scientist insane.
Uh hay, hate to break it to you but in material science, wear resistance is the property that dictates a materials ability to resist abrasions.
Plastics are often fairly wear resistant but often aren’t very hard. Wear resistance is not a very straightforward to understand as it isn’t controlled by any one of the more basic material properties but rather the specific way that they interplay. These more basic properties are:
Hardness is a materials ability to resist deformation.
Strength is the force required to break the material
Toughness is the energy required to break a material
So a tough sample may be very soft but only somewhat strong were a hard material could be really strong but shatter like leaded glass and is thusly not very tough.
Because of this interplay a sugarcube is harder than leather but leather is way more wear resistant than the sugar cube.
These carbonatos are like similarly as hard and strong as a normal diamond, but way tougher. That makes the material much more useful in cutting application where they are used as an abrasive grit, because it would take them longer to break down.
Though, from my experience, diamond abrasives tend to fail not because the the diamonds break but because the binder lets go of the diamonds.
Idk for what practical applications they are hoping to use this stuff, though. Maybe replacing Carbides in machining operations?
Hi, i have exact stone that depicts your exact explanation, is there a way you can help me identify if its a carbonado, it was found in the wet part of Africa
Everyones talking about Steven Universe, but wheres the love for houseki no kuni(land of the lustrous)
They just haven't been enlightened to the superior franchise.
I’ve heard of that anime. Didn’t it come out last year with the amazing cgi everyone was talking about? Is it worth the watch?
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There was a shallow ancient sea that covered most of North America. The places where it was spotty land islands and or peninsula there were and still are carbonados to be found in a major abundance. Huge ones bigger than any yet documented.
"Once you've eliminated the impossible, must come great responsibility." I think that was Yoda that said that, right?
:) Good information
Possible source of "carbonados": solar micronova. They happen quite often, and are known to eject material at incredible speed, forming a plasma "shell" which cools as it travels away from its host star. This theorem most perfectly explains the possible origins; as solar micronovae ejecta are known to contain elemental metals, as well as carbon and silicon. Since lab made "Carbonados" form most easily and more closely resemble natural "Carbonados" when created in a vacuum, via bursts of plasmatic carbon ions, the solar micronovae theorem is the most viable explanation for the elusive *Black* *Diamond* .
Sorry y'all, my brain puked.
Awesome.
All the continents were once connected together before a major cataclysm had once occured.
I just randomly remembered SciShow and how I never see their videos recommended anymore? Are they getting screwed by YT right now?
"eliminated the impossible" That's catchy!
Carbonardos is a xenomorph?
*Takes flying saucer and flies to Mars*
A paper from the journal Elements says "In contrast to kimberlitic diamonds, the geochemical signatures of carbonados are systematically crustal", so that seems to rule out interstellar theories.
So I came across a black diamond today (jeweler) that is unlike any other I've seen. Most of the ones that come through my shop have a faint green tint that you can pick up under a microscope but this one was like green diamond green, bright, but only after a couple seconds under the bright led light of the scope. Take it back to incandescent/fluorescent light, black again. Like some sort of alexandrite black diamond. Any ideas as to why this one is so different?
Michael's way of speaking reminds me a lot of LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow. I mean that as a compliment :D
Y'all: New Steven Universe character
Me, an intellectual: It's Bortz
Anime steven universe
Literally the moment I heard as strong as a diamond but tougher, all I could think of was Bort
Bortz is a different babie
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
was looking for this. It's wise to cover all bases.
Definitely aliens.
Obviously
I'm not saying it was aliens, I'm sitting it was aliens
I have found small ones in NC. If it comes from space its all across the earth. Ive found 5 carbonado meteorites in years on the hunt
did you try scratching synthetic ruby with it?
If I remember my research correctly, one of the main inclusions of carbonados is graphite, which means it's just carbon interrupted by... more carbon.
Carbon:
"All known life is made from chains of ME"
"The hardest natural material is just cubes of ME"
"The toughest variation of the hardest natural material is ME broken up by more ME"
"The strongest synthetic material (graphene) is more shapes of JUST ME!"
Carbon is the OP element and narcissistic AF.
I found one that broke off a meteor, and a piece fell near my home, after I heard the boom and saw the light of the meteor impact on earth. Silent meditation made this event clear to my ability to share, confidently, what I found.
Hello! Can you guys please, make a video about anticyclones? Especially the Azores Islands one? You can barely find videos with good and simple explanations about it... I got interested on it because of Hurricane Lorenzo.. Because first predictions told it was going straight through the middle of Azores Islands, and now the closer it gets, as the prediction shows, it gets further and further away. I searched about it, and I found out Azores Islands have a really big anticyclone and that's why they've never been hit TOO hard by hurricanes etc. They always drift away due to the Azores anticyclone.. Every hurricane in history is pushed away or severely weakened, they still pass near the islands sometimes, but they can never get close enough to do real damage.. It literally feels like Mother Nature is protecting the Islands.. I find it quite amazing.. I'd love too see you guys talk about this, I feel like it's a very interesting topic that many people don't even know about!
Metallic diamonds. Awesome.
We do use something similar in machining actually. PCD, poly crystalline diamond. Works just like the vid says.
Nice video
I watched a special once that talked about synthesizing them, and it discussed a likely origin being from something like a supernova, since it seemed to form best in a vacuum. They were supposed to revolutionize the tech industry by replacing silicone with these opaque diamonds or something.
Just...for the record, I saw this special more than ten years ago. I tried to be vague to stick only to the facts I remember. If I got anything wrong, please let me know.
@3:00 you touch upon something really interesting, Michael. I just got done reading chapter 3 of a book called Abduction To The 9th Planet. You might find it interesting.
I feel like "categorization" over "discovwry" would work better for alot of your videos
Thanks 🙏
What's the price per Carat....?
Any link....?
Damn, I'm gunna have to re-watch the video, I spent the whole time reading comments .
You can find them in Colorado to
skin on skin
sideways, frontwards, backwards
no condoms
I've got carbanados here in central Nevada.
this is black diamond
Frontwards... backwards... upside-down...
on the living room
Black Diamonds!? They're properties sound like something out of a SciFi book!
*Doomfist Voice*
Just what I needed 😈
Wow. Now I can say my mountaineering gear is from outer space
Great video and very informative. Thank you so much for the research info. I believe Black diamond carbonado meteorites have been found in North America as well. Not just in Africa. Possible update. thank you.
You mean South America, Brazil.
Only found in Brazil and CAR but we have many black diamonds here in the Philippines :)
Didn't heard of those in Diablo.
Guess it would really added value to my leach-maul-of the heavens!
Just to clear this up, Carbonados are not always found in Africa. They are also in places like Madagascar. Geologically wise, they are the same place. Also, diamonds are not super rare, or the rarest mineral at all. Also, Carbonados in places where there are other diamonds, can be found fairly easily. It is only a bigger majority of them that aren't Carbonado, but not a gigantic fraction of them all. Carbonados are rarer than most diamonds mainly due to them being less spread out, just like diamonds are called rare because some continents are somewhat sparse of them.
I forgot to mention that Madagascar is in Central Africa.
you have my like because of that sherlock quote
a rare, possibly extraterrestrial mineral found only in specific continents... sounds like Vibranium to me
Carbonado diamonds are also found in the Midwest U.S.
I have a question for yall: Why when I put my garbage in a garbage can, and it gets picked up by garbage men, to be put into a landfill, does my trash suddenly end up in the ocean? I see so many pictures of garbage in the ocean matched with reasons why I should use less plastic, recycle, or create less trash, but my question is how the hell did it end up loose in the ocean to begin with? I very carefully put my trash in a plastic bag, in a closing bin, to be picked up carefully by professional garbage men, who most often makes sure not to drop anything on my street and if they do, I pick it up and put it back in a plastic bag. So how the hell does the garbage every even get to the ocean? I feel like I'm missing a step in the garbage cycle process.
Dude that's petty pretty amazing
Ok that's it. I want a carbanados for my wedding ring hah!
Once you've eliminated the impossible whatever's left remains only a possibility. If my only two ideas on the pyramids are people lifting two ton blocks by hand and aliens, doesn't mean that aliens are the inevitable conclusion.
Well now I am going to have Michael stuck saying “Carbondos” in my head
This is gonna be a new Syfy movie. Carbonado Storm!
This video was in my sub box but the thumbnail wasn't loading so I was confused about why I was subbed to an SU theory channel
Metal in the Mantle? That's Mental!
They really called them xenomorphs.
I drove a Carbonado back in 1978, it got great mileage
I know it's called Carbonado but for a split second I heard Carbonara and now I have this image in my head of a saw blade made of indestructible pasta... And it's making me hungry
Didn't the Egyptians know that iron came from meteorites? ...