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MacGyver Science: Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower
DIY Synthetic Diamond
MacGyver wants to make a synthetic diamond — because dirt diamonds are crazy expensive (and they don’t need to be). Seriously, MacGyver wouldn’t want to give someone a dirt-diamond. A synthetic diamond, on the other hand, is much more beautiful. It is a product of science — and that makes it awesome.
So, could you make your own diamond at home? Maybe. Check this out.
Check out MacGyver’s homemade lab:
The chemical vapor deposition thing works by shooting molecules (or just atoms) at a surface so that they stick — but you have to do this without the air because it would just get in the way. That’s why he has the vacuum system.
Yes, you could use this to build a diamond layer by layer.
Tuned Mass Damper
This is the key to the whole episode — a tuned mass damper (TMD). Murdoc has taken control of a building’s tuned mass damper. It’s basically a giant swinging ball inside of the building. The purpose of this giant…
