Diamanti

E’ molto che non metto canzoncine scientifiche. Carbon is a girl’s best friend è per far sorridere Katia, “un po’ mesta” che adesso fa ricerca sui diamanti:

There may come a time when you need to do some
squeezing – carbon is your hardest friend!
There may come a time when a substrate is needed
to deposit your film on.
Well just sputter it on a hard diamond.
If you have some lubing to do
then graphite is the allotrope for you.
Or if your into Ages then carbon-14 will date it.
Carbon is a girl’s best friend!

I’ve heard of attempts to make hard carbon nitride
but diamonds always win in the end!
I’ve heard that we need to make something much cleaner
to put in our cars or else we won’t get very far.