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Diamonds are beautiful, but mining them can be dangerous and occur in war zones. But it takes scientists only 10 weeks to grow diamonds in a microwave! They start with a tiny piece of diamond, called a carbon seed. A plasma ball forms when the seed is heated with methane gas in a microwave, and a diamond grows!
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LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Change the “light” to “microwave” and you’ve got MASER. Masers were hard to use because they needed extremely cold temperatures. But researchers grew an artificial diamond that allows a maser to work continuously at room temperature! Now, what will they use it on first?
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