If we only had one banana and no other material what so ever. Would it theoretically be possible to use the whatever tiniest particles inside that banana to create diamond or gold?
If so, what would be necessary, and how long time would it take to create a machine with such ability :)
2006-07-11 20:35:15 · 13 answers · asked by Hansinchina 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Diamond: easy. Cook it for a while to drive off the other elements and be left with charcoal (carbon). Then give it some pressure and heat - presto: diamond!
Gold: more difficult. Particle accelorators and atom smashers can be manipulated quite effectively these days. Give one of those guys a banana and he'll figure out a way to turn it into gold for you, although it would cost far more than the gold would be worth.
Personally I'd prefer to just eat the banana.
2006-07-11 20:42:51 · answer #1 · answered by tgypoi 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, you should probably just eat that banana, because the answer, sadly, is no. There are in fact many many reasons why a banana could not become a diamond, but the basic one is really the stumbling block of alchemy. You see, the thing that makes an element what it is are its protons, neutrons, and electrons. So if you had a block of say.....lead, to get it to be gold you'd need to add one proton, one electron, and a small smattering of neutrons. You can make it with just a proton and and electron (it would be an isotope, same properties as gold just a different weight). The problem is getting the darned protons into the atom. You see, it's not as simple as just gluing another cotton ball onto your homemade sheep sculpture. You have to shoot protons (actually you usually use electrons) at the atom until one just happens to collide with it. This sounds violent... and it is. It makes your newly formed gold atom unstable and it begins to radioactively decay into lighter elements. So even with something like lead where you only really need to add one proton/electron, you end up with a very small amount of gold (that's radioactive) and a whole lot of junk that's not worth very much. And with the money you invested in making your few grains of radioactive gold you could've bought a whole pile of regular gold. Diamonds are even more complicated and I'm not going to go into it much, but I will say that even with carbon, which is what diamonds are made of, you can't make a real diamond. The best you get is a fairly unconvincing cubic zarconia, which most girls will slap you for giving it to them. Sorry to ruin your banana ambitions!!!
2006-07-11 20:48:41 · answer #2 · answered by uberforgetful 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to make a banana into a diamond today. But turning a banana into a gold its not likly.
To turn a banana into a diamond first you need a lot of bananas.
When you would have to carbonise the bananas with high heat so all that would be left over is carbon ashes. Then with the carbon ashes you would heat them under great pressure until diamonds were forms.
For more details try doing a search on synthetic diamonds.
2006-07-11 21:17:43 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Hex Vision 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly in about 100,000 years a banana could transform into a diamond. It is impossible for a banana to turn into gold.
2006-07-12 01:53:40 · answer #4 · answered by xox_bass_player_xox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it achieveable to create man made diamonds? you'll want This Irems: a commonplace living house microwave oven 2 espresso mugs 3 products of 3mm graphite pencil lead some drops of extra virgin olive oil A 5" piece of one hundred% cotton thread the hardest merchandise to locate replaced into the only hundred% cotton thread. that's surprising how scarce that stuff is. After searching by ability of all of our sewing notions, i ultimately chanced on some black thread that i imagine my mom bought back in the 70's.
2016-11-01 21:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thoretically anything is possible. A bananna has a carbon base which is what diamonds are made of. It must break down for millions of years and be compressed in to coal, then to a diamond form.
2006-07-11 20:39:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoritically it is possible. Banana contains CARBON. This carbon under high pressure converts into DIAMOND. One variety (Hybrid) of banana, FHIA-23 is called GOLDEN FINGER.
2006-07-11 20:56:59 · answer #7 · answered by K.J. Jeyabaskaran K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. i do it all the time. give me a banana and a million bux, and i'll have your diamond, and a ton of gold bricks next week. i'll mail em to ya. cash up front only.
2006-07-11 20:43:28 · answer #8 · answered by bunghole 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alchemy?
2006-07-11 20:47:32 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just add water!!! BANANA~POOF~Diamond!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-11 20:45:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋