The answer to the question, Real diamonds can be made from peanuts butter is exactly true. Ans with justification; It might be possible to change peanut butter into diamond, but it would probably have to be done in a lab. Diamond, an allotrope of carbon, is formed in an environment of heat and great pressure. We can make diamonds by the compression of carbon around a diamond seed in a huge press that is heated. But heating peanut butter to reduce it to carbon would probably result in it burning (if it was done in air), or pyrolizing (if it was done away from air). The first would allow the carbon to get away and the latter would see it form compounds that would resist allowing the carbon to form diamond crystals. If we treated the peanut butter chemically to isolate the carbon, we could use that to create a diamond in the press we mentioned before. This question might be designed to cause a student to think about peanut butter, specifically about the chemistry of this substance. There is a fair amount of carbon in peanut butter, but it is chemically chained up with other elements to make up organic molecules. Heating and compressing peanut butter without isolating the carbon would probably just make a mess in the press. But the carbon in peanut butter is the same as the carbon in a diamond. Carbon is carbon. Its just that in diamond, the atoms of carbon have been forced into lattice, and it takes a lot of heat and pressure to make that happen. JAZAK ALLAH! :)
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:54:50 +0000
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