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To: unclewest who wrote (4589)	12/18/2000 9:24:13 AM
From: tfrugal	Respond to of 10712

Crystal puts pressure on diamonds "Diamonds have charmed high-pressure scientists. Now a new suitor is pressing for affection. A synthetic crystal called moissanite has squeezed in on diamonds role as the jaws of a powerful experimental device known as a diamond anvil cell.... Good as they are, diamond anvils have flaws. they're small, so they can only hold minute samples. Larger anvils would require larger gems, which are scarce and expensive. Also a diamond's spectrographic signature (the wavelengths of light it absorbs and emits) interferes with the analysis of many materials.....the team's largest moisannite crystal is about the size of a 300-carat diamond..... Lifted from the SCIENCE NEWS vol 158, pp278 Oct 28, 2000 Sorry for being 6 weeks behind on my reading....