Timeline for Why are there no cheap diamond equivalents?
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| Dec 29, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | Nick T | And for crystalline materials, you're talking about fairly fundamental atomic properties that are nearly impossible to rationally control or manipulate. | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | Nick T | As far as searching for "alternatives" or improvements for other things (e.g. bronze vs. steel vs. composites), improvement of one property is almost always is a tradeoff for something else. If you're making a structure of some sort, usually you just care about a couple properties (Young's modulus, tensile strength) and the others are irrelevant. Sometimes though, you care about lots of properties (color, castibility, patina, strength...) it's increasingly difficult. | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 1:00 | vote | accept | Deep | ||
| Dec 28, 2014 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackChemistry/status/549308924248469506 | ||
| Dec 28, 2014 at 20:03 | history | edited | Gimelist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2014 at 20:02 | answer | added | Gimelist | timeline score: 26 | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 19:08 | answer | added | Michael DM Dryden | timeline score: 17 | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 18:42 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Yes, it is. As far as I'm concerned, you can make Gold out of Lead; but it's not worth it. | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 18:32 | history | asked | Deep | CC BY-SA 3.0 |