From Coal to Diamond

Coal and diamond are two forms of carbon but they are completely different. Even though they are both carbon, the difference lies in the structure.

Coal is made up of different, overlapping structures where diamond is made of single, box-like structures. Coal is brittle because these overlapping structures can easily slide past each other. It is easy to create a tiny fracture in this pattern. This fracture will become the bigger break.

Diamond is strong because the structures are arranged like a builder arranging bricks. The structures, when hit, stay intact because the structures are giving each other support and helping them stay intact. See the diagram below to see the differences between coal and diamond.

As we all know, coal is common to find and diamonds are rare. Miners also have to dig deeper to find diamonds. All the diamonds dug out in human history would only fill two Olympic size swimming pools. It is this almost vanishing scarcity that makes diamond so valuable and precious.

Here is my proposal for a futuristic way of changing coal to diamond. We could use the power of AFMs (atomic force microscopes) to view and change the structure of coal atoms to form diamonds. AFMs use the power of the second force, electromagnetism, to view and change the structure of atoms to form other substances.

Thank you!

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A rainy day

This is a scenery I drew on a 6 holiday stretch. :-

This is a picture of a rainy day. There is grass, a tree, a house and rain. It reminds me of the 2016 cyclone, Vardhah. But this is in a rural area. The background depicts it.

Space Ship Three - Interstellar spaceship

This is no ordinary spaceship. This is SpaceShipThree!

SpaceShipThree is my proposal for a futuristic spaceplane used for interstellar travel. 

It uses a system called Pulsar Propulsion. Pulsar Propulsion, like all other rockets, makes use of Newtons third law of motion(every action has an equal and opposite reaction) to generate motion. 

Pulsar Propulsion consists of atomic size black holes(read my previous report about black holes: http://pranav.srij.it/2015/06/black-holes.html) that emit jets of radiation. This radiation can be harnessed to power SpaceShipThree.

SpaceShipThree works like this:

• First the jet engine starts and takes the spaceplane to around Mach 2(twice the speed of sound).
• The airelions and rudder help control the spaceplane.
• Then the rocket engines take over and propel the spaceplane to the escape velocity.
• For interstellar travel, everything folds up and the pulsar propulsion system takes over.
• For communications with Earth, SpaceShipThree has a radio reciever and transmitter.

THANK YOU!

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HAVE AN AWESOME DAY ON SpaceShipThree!