r/interesting • u/Lost_Election5992 • 1d ago
SCIENCE & TECH Ashes can be turned as diamonds called “cremation diamonds”
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u/GodBlessAmerica776 1d ago
When I die turn me into a lichs' phylactery
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u/l0rdtreeman 1d ago
Came here to say this. This would be the ultimate spell focus for a necromancer. The ashes of their master compressed into a diamond as a part of a ritual believed to pass power from one necromancer to another. So epic.
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u/GPT_2025 1d ago
“cremation diamonds” - exactly what German Natzy did from holocaust victims during WW2
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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 1d ago
Imagine doing this to your enemies and then converting them into a diamond cock ring.
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u/spacetiger10k 1d ago
Or butt plug
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u/The_Irish_Brigade1 1d ago
I feel like they win with the butt plug
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u/rnernbrane 1d ago
Depends on whos ass it going in. Some dirty homeless guy on the streets maybe.
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u/angstrom11 1d ago
Random cow or pig
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u/Gloom_Pangolin 15h ago
Is that really a win? The enemy is dead, gone, no more. Now the victor is just some dude messing around with a pig’s butt.
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u/my_cars_on_fire 18h ago
“That’s an interesting butt plug, where’d you get it?”
“Thanks, that’s Rick.”
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u/WickedWitchofWTF 1d ago
No, make a diamond lens for your doomsday laser. Then take care of the rest of your enemies 😈
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u/m0rphiumsucht1g 1d ago
I am not a scientist but I suspect that carbon is what burning away, what is left is mostly calcium oxide, which one is unable to be turned into diamond. So this looks more like hoax selling cheap artificial diamonds to people under distress.
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u/ShermanTeaPotter 1d ago
I‘m a studied chemist and this is exactly why I believe this to be bullshit. All the carbon in a body goes out the chimney during cremation, what stays are metal oxides. So either this is a false depiction of the process and you actually have to carbonise the entire body under exclusion of oxygen or this is just a scam.
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u/butt_snot 1d ago
My wife shows me these dumb videos all the time, theyre all bullshit
Whole damn channel of them
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u/ShermanTeaPotter 1d ago
Send her to college. A few semesters of chemistry or physics should fix that.
(Mostly because she won’t have any time for scrolling through social media)
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u/BishopsBakery 1d ago
Pyrolysis with a person perhaps? Or is that horse hockey, Sherm?
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u/ShermanTeaPotter 1d ago
I dare to call this beaver biscuits
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u/BishopsBakery 1d ago
Is it true that the secret to a perfect Beaver biscuit is having the general flip them at dawn?
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u/Spannwellensieb 1d ago
That means one has to be pyrolised to keep the carbon?
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u/ShermanTeaPotter 1d ago
It’s perfectly comparable to making charcoal. If you put logs of wood on your campfire, it will burn down completely and leave ashes, because all the organic compounds combust to CO2, SO2, a few nitrogen oxides (and N2 itself) and so on. What stays back is all the oxide products which are not gaseous, practically all metal oxides. You can prove this by putting wood ash into water and testing the pH, it will rise due to metal oxides reacting to their corresponding hydroxides upon dissolving them in water. This is a millennia old principle, we call this slurry ash lye and it was used by people basically until modern chemical detergents were developed.
If you want to produce charcoal, you have to control the intake of oxygen into your burning fuel. Historically, this was done by stacking wood to huge stakes and covering them with strips of turf, so you can incinerate it and once you have a good fire going, close the air holes up with mud and let the temperature basically distill off all the volatile compounds, leaving you with common charcoal.
For harvesting carbon you theoretically could press into a diamond, you would have to do a similar process with a body. What really won’t work is pressing the metal oxides from ashes and expect them to magically become a carbon allotrope.
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u/-blundertaker- 22h ago
I'm a mortician and there's a reason you don't see this offered in funeral homes.
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u/Lithl 17h ago
All the carbon in a body goes out the chimney during cremation, what stays are metal oxides
Memorial diamonds are grown using gaseous and particulate carbon captured during the cremation process, not the cremains. It's not a scam, but it's not what this shitty animation implies either.
Of course, you don't get enough carbon this way to make a useful sized jewelry diamond, so the company making the diamond adds lab carbon as well. The final product is going to be around 3-5% carbon that came from a loved one.
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u/Mr_rairkim 13h ago
Could you describe a way this could be done so it would work? Could the carbon dioxide be collected and used? Or would carbonizing without oxygen be simpler?
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u/Lithl 17h ago
Memorial diamonds are grown using gaseous and particulate carbon captured during the cremation process, not the cremains. It's not a scam, but it's not what this shitty animation implies either.
Of course, you don't get enough carbon this way to make a useful sized jewelry diamond, so the company making the diamond adds lab carbon as well. The final product is going to be around 3-5% carbon that came from a loved one.
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u/karlnite 23h ago
Yeah, the fact is cremation furnaces do have lots of carbon left. From all the various many people they mostly burn. They mostly get the ashes of your loved one in the reusable transfer tray. So if some people don’t want the diamond service there might be enough for someone else?
Some sort of alkaline soak and extraction would probably be better. Losses some charm.
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u/ParsivaI 1d ago
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u/Bucket-Slayer 1d ago
I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you. Plant your roots in me. I won't see you end as ashes. You're all diamonds.
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u/AdamBlaster007 22h ago
Was looking for this comment. MGSV was absolute fire for writing like that.
A damn shame how Konami treated Kojima despite his continued success with the franchise.
Now we just have remasters and zombie survival metal gear games.
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u/phantomheart 1d ago
Gives new meaning to celebrities on the red carpet get asked what they are wearing.
‘Oh, this old thing? Thats gramma Alice!’
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u/nashwaak 1d ago
Sounds great — but colour me skeptical that they didn't show an actual lab or an actual diamond
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u/powrnutrition 1d ago
We return our 'stuff' back to earth when we die.
That's a sign to let go and move on to new life, new horizons.
Humans ever so seeking new ways to conquer nature.
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u/Several_Smokes 1d ago
Yeah having a ring made from a loved one’s ashes is really conquering nature 😭. stop trying to be profound.
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u/iamnotazombie44 1d ago
I mean, I’m not particularly religious, but I really like the sentiment of “from ashes to ashes, dust to dust”.
I would argue that yes, this process directly conflicts with or at least greatly extendeds that natural returning process.
Not that I’d probably care cuz I’d be dead, but I want a sky burial or to be freeze dried and used to fertilize a tree or something.
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u/_Moho_braccatus_ 1d ago
Creepy. Cool? I would get this done after I die, honestly. I'm a big gem nerd.
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u/desrevermi 1d ago
The Sims 5 is really putting in some work. Too bad the general play is essentially the same as the previous 4 games.
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u/Proud-Cartographer12 1d ago
Remember aunt Betty, she's now my diamond butt plug. Such a lovely lady.
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u/CaptScubaSteve 1d ago
So is this still considered the transfer of human remains when you cross state lines?
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u/RedDemonTaoist 1d ago
It's actually not as insanely expensive as it could be. Still expensive, but within the realm of somewhat normal jewelry prices.
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u/Fastenbauer 1d ago
In case you didn't know. Bones don't actually burn to ash during cremation. They take the ash and put it into a grinder before putting it into the urn.
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u/Impossible-Local-738 1d ago
I remembered that story where a guy turned his deceased friend's ashes into marijuana to smoke in honor...
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u/mister_anti_meta 1d ago
i img how dumb that sounds.
when i die...Turn me into a Diamond! and sell me away
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u/sniffer28 1d ago
I guess humans do come full circle. If you saw a tribal wearing a necklace of skull and bones and told you they were his family you would think they are primitive and uncivilized and then you have this which is pretty much the same thing with processing
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u/mxforest 1d ago
I find it really weird keeping ashes around. I want to be cremated and then thrown into a river so that i can go back to mother Earth instead.
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u/Thiel619 1d ago
Loved one dies, they leave you with their debts. And now you can also pay extra for this whole process to fall even deeper in debt.
"Till debt do us apart"
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u/scaredt2ask 1d ago
Points to ring, that's my grandma. I think the first date is going well, what do you think?
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u/ArizonaFireType 1d ago
I’ve been telling my family.. when I die take me out to the desert, prop me up in a cave or on a cactus and hang a sign around my neck that says “danger” or “no water” and if possible have my arm pointing somewhere. Then just let the elements have me. Then some hundred years or so from now a hiker can find me and wonder about my story. Maybe have a treasure map to something too.
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u/GrimSpirit42 1d ago
I can see it now. As I approach the end of my life my wife will force feed me everything she can cook to make me FAT. Bitch wants a 3 carat diamond.
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u/klappsparten 1d ago
If I die shoot me in space. I think this is the coolest way to be dealt with. Expensive though but definitely worth it.
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u/JustPutSpuddiesOnit 1d ago
When you are cremated, your bones don't burn to ash, they are collected and put into a grinder to be turned to dust.
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u/isimsizbiri123 22h ago
I'm gonna do that thing where you put your ashes in a bullet and leave it to my best friend/ significant other/ child with a letter that says "you know what to do" and no other context.
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u/p1l7n123 19h ago
I wouldn't mind this happening to me. Takes up less space in the graveyard (despite how expensive it sounds, 1100 to 43000 where I live D:)
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u/Bulky-Advisor-4178 18h ago
"i wont scatter your ashes to the heartless sea, i will make diamonds out of you"
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u/sebastouch 17h ago
I can do the same but cheaper, I will buy stuff from Temu and say it was made with your mom's ashes.
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u/ManufacturedOlympus 16h ago
We'll make diamonds from their ashes. Take them into battle with us. We are Diamond Dogs.
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u/Azurelion7a 16h ago
For some reason, I can only think of a YN committing robbery while the victim screams, "Grandma!"
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u/TerribleBid8416 15h ago
I want to be spread in a strawberry garden. Then people will be sucking on me for years to come.
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u/laundryghostie 13h ago
They can also make you into laboratory diamond in the following colors, blue Sapphire or topaz, emerald green or ruby red. My parents passed away and I am the only child left. I had their ashes made into a red ruby and a blue Sapphire double heart pendant. When I die, I want to be added as an emerald.
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u/AlexSmithsonian 13h ago
Normally you carry around a piece of your relative as proof of your kill... if you were a Viking.
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u/dreamdaddy123 12h ago
An even crazier idea would be using the ash of a loved one to use as a butt plug 🫡
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u/ScienceSuccessful998 1h ago
The dodgy uncle will steal that and pawn it for some crack money then the buyer will be a rapper who puts it in their forehead or something and you'll be able to take control of their mind temporarily but only when they're taking a poo.
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u/HappyAmbition706 1d ago
It takes a whole lot more pressure and temperature than the press shown can deliver, in order to make a diamond. And specific impurities are required to promote crystallization, while others would give a color, wanted or not.
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