Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientists are attempting to apply millions of atmospheres of pressure to the hydrogen by squeezing the molecules between two microscopic diamond chips. By pushing the two chips together at a temperature of approximately-450 degrees, Silvera hopes to attain his goal...
...real revolution in high pressure technique," he says. "Because the area is so small, you don't need that much force." But the real bonus, he says, is that "the diamond gives a window on the experiment. We might actually be able to watch the hydrogen change into the metallic state...
Until recently, it was very difficult to get 100,000 atmospheres, but with the new diamond cell, they can predictably attain at least 1 million atmospheres, Silvers says...
...Yorker, these articles seemed exhaustive; in the book, some of them are disappointingly brief. The same illusion of time slowed and prose made denser is observable in even the best of the magazine's longer fact articles, which can seem interminable when becalmed among ads for Jaguars and diamond earrings, and then are transformed unedited into brisk 180-page books...
Never, in particular, underestimate the diamond studded bacchanalia that is the Pudding show's opening night Especially if you aren't used to counting your champagne bottles by the square yard and pushing your way between velvet shoulders and clustered TV cameras just to see other people ogling Man of the Year Sean Connery. It could be considered decadent or glamor-mad, a bit peculiar--the audience's vast delight in hairy cleavages and falsetto love scenes--or, in years when the show is lousy, altogether pointless...