Can You Fuse Rocks Together With EXTREME Pressure?

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To turn such minerals into actual rock instead of compressed powder, you need to apply pressure AND heat. Without raising the temperature to at least a few hundred °C (more is better), you'll only crush the crytals instead of fusing them together. My recommendation would be to first crush it to max. pressure to let the hardened piston do its work, then blast it with a blowtorch for at least 10-20 min. Let it cool slowly to room temperature, the result should be a little closer to a rock. Trying to get metastable ice VII btw. is a very interesting idea. Again, I would recommend to hold the pressure for a few minutes after crushing the water to give it time to move through all the phase transitions. As a high pressure seal, you probably wont get good results with rubber. Use a soft metal instead (try lead or copper).

You're really close to being able to make diamonds! You only need 50 000 bars, and to heat the coal to 1200°C

When you switch to Tungsten rods, please be careful, as those are super brittle, and have a very high likelyhood of exploding under pressure.

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have you thought about making the pressing tool a bit of a cone-shape ? that way it'll be harder for you to deform it going in, it'll also help focus the pressure into a smaller area if you also cut material of the cylinder itself for it to fit.

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Using safety measures "so all of the problems stay inside of the box" is honestly a wonderful safety message. Sometimes things happen. Sometimes these things are Problems. Keep the Problems far away from you. Contain the Problems inside of a box.

I love his fascination with making his own rocks❤

You have enough pressure, you just have to leave the sand in the press for a few million years to turn it into proper rock 🙂

Combine the press with an induction heater. Most rocks require high pressure and temperature to form.

Really interested to see if you can succeed to even at least make ice-6 with a hydraulic press 😁

I love the cackles of laughter every time something breaks.

First rule: Do not crush any of your body parts. Thank you, I did not know that.

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To push the rods out, you could use some ball bearings that are slightly smaller than the hole. Each time you push one in, add another on top and push again.

Anni's laugh really is quite something. Also in the background at 5.24 when she says 'Oh no.' Is perfect.

This channel has truly hot the rock bottom. I'll see myself out.

i love this new series of compressing things together rather than letting them fly all over the place

3:17 yep. my favorite moment.