Dan Frost, a geologist from the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany, has replicated extreme conditions found in the Earth’s surface and created diamonds in his lab using regular peanut butter. It may not be the first time that diamonds are made in a lab but it is probably one of the first cases reported where peanut butter has been used to produce lab diamonds. Frost explains that his research team has two types of presses with which they can artificially produce diamonds in lab. One of the presses squeezes crystals by a piston up to 280,000 times atmospheric pressure while they cook in a furnace.
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