Making DIAMONDS From Scratch 

we need your real voice buddy

I really wish you would listen to everyone and do the voiceover yourself again. Your voice is so unique and charming, and was one of the main reasons I loved your videos. They just aren't the same without it :/

I know we all want his voice back but our boy could really use our help right now

Cubic boron nitride isn't just tougher than diamond, but it is used to cut and grind steel because it doesn't get dissolved by the metal.

Good to see you streaming again hopefully the lab will be together in the future for more fun . And like everyone bring back the true voice 👍🏾🌵😎

I repaired a machine for a company near Piscataway, NJ about 24 years ago that made artificial diamonds. I was told that the next day a Russian dignitary second to Boris Yeltsin was coming to the company. I was being given the 50cent tour until I started asking very specific questions. They had several presses about ~1 meter square when closed, that resembled artichokes.

Nice as usual. I still prefer your voice over this. Two notes: 1. De Beers was never an American company. Itvwas founded by South African & British owners. 2. Moissanite is NOT sold as "fake" diamond, but as it's own thing, moissanite, like any other gemstone. Although like cubic zirconia, it used to be used as a diamond substitute, it has become in demand and desireable in itself. Moissanite has a higher refractive index, and much more visible "fire" than a diamond, making it even more beautiful, in the opinion of many.

I made gold from lead. Chewed fishing weights and swallowed. Out came gold. Only problem is I can’t do maths any more…

Are you back? 😃💜 Happy to see you're still uploading videos! I hope you can get your lab back 🥺

It ain't you no more without your voice! Please return!

Right - new narrator does his work perfectly. But the show is not quite the same without you doing the narration. Nice shirt by the way. 😉

I really like your narration. I’m not sure if you’re planning on continuing with the overdubbing but I would be sad if you did. Your videos as they usually are , are so excellent! I would be happy to have them in your native language with subtitles, even

Good to see u back at it! Happy holidays brother!

Anyone who is wondering...he has a VO guy because he hasn't had the extra time necessary to do it himself. In time maybe he'll be up to the extra workload again, but stop giving him a hard time demanding your personal preference. He certainly works hard to provide high quality content with no fee required; so enjoy it, and encourage him instead!

Hi everyone in the comments. Yes, we love his natural accent. But he has mentioned in the past that it takes a lot of time for him to do the translations and voiceover. Also, his lab burned down recently and he probably couldn't have done the voiceover this time.

Good to see your productions again. This was absolutely fascinating. You produce a good program.

That was a fascinating insight. Those giant presses really do look impressive. Cheers.

Good luck in the New Year. Hope you channel keeps going strong 🙏

I saw the reason you can't use your voice in the commuinty tab so take care. The voice over isn't bad. This was interesting. If you could lab created sapphire and emerald. Merry Christmas.

I won’t watch this channel again until he brings back his old voice

I miss your original voice! The new voice guy sounds good, but there is a nostalgia I feel when listening to your real voice.

I love this channel, but don't like the post production voice. Without your organic voice track, which I, and I'm sure many others love to listen to, I almost can't hear what's actually in the video! Keep up the great content, but please do the voice track yourself. Also, sorry you lost your workshop, I did donate, as I'm sure many others have.

Good to see you back and strong!

De Beers is a part south Africa commpeny and has a lot of mines if africa and the start in Africa

Bonjour cher ami. J'adore vos vidéos, j'apprends tellement de choses., vos explications sont illustrées, claires et accessibles merci. Je vous souhaite de joyeuses fêtes.

Your the man. Here to say i miss your voiceover and i feel like I'm watching another channel. Hope things are good.

Please use celsius for temperature or if you have to include fahrenheit, use both. Thank you.

Hope we will be able to hear that amazing voice soon man. Very cool vid btw

Your own voice was the identity of this channel.

Agreed. His strong accent and choice of words make a better message

Thank you, Thoisoi2, for the video. Thank you, Kamil, for the diamond anvil gasket.

i think they just basically use methane and microwaves to make plasma and have a coil with a grounded target plate at lower pressure but not full vacuum with "seed diamonds" on the target plate. I watched a video on it years ago, maybe you can find it on youtube still.

Hi friend amazing video love your work good to see you again

De Beers is a South African company. Well was.

imagine failing at making ice so you make diamonds instead because it's easier 😂

Thoisoi, Encouraging you to keep making great videos!!! You're one of the best, on RU-vid & your videos are very good!!! When things get tough ... The tough get going!!! Keep on, Keeping on!!! 'ol Pete, from NE Dallas County, Dallas, TX, USA

Great you're back

Glad to see u on here. 🎉

Great! Many blessings sir.

Just so you know Your voice was what made your channel special.

I personally like the new voice. Your videos are fantastic and they are easier for me to understand this way.

I miss your _"Hai erryone!"_ (No disrespect to the voiceover guy, he does a great job)

I'm not saying these came from DeBeer's group or how I got them but , but I have jar of titanium coated diamonds(200g+). Can't remember what they are used on but they look beautiful under a scope.

Thank you it was very interesting!

Under dry hydrogen, progressively dissolve powdered aluminum carbide in molten lithium hydride while electrolyzing (re alumina to aluminum beneficiation in cryolite). Diamond forms from the hydrogen plasma in the electrical double layer at the anode, and rapidly grows. Graphite, glassy carbon, other carbon lattices etch. Thermodynamics proposes, kinetics disposes. Diamond anvil press "iron foil" gasket? Try iridium.

Water -doesn’t- shouldn’t freeze under pressure. Due to the atomic properties of the solidification process of water, the ice would expand to create _more_ pressure. Instead, the water would be forced closer to it’s maximum density or compressibility (liquid) before becoming solid as Ice 7, a cubic crystalline structure of water. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that under standard pressurization circumstances water should not freeze.

it's wild how the algorithm buried this channel and made me have to actively look for new Thoisoi videos, while that NileRed purple gold video is being promoted to all heck

I *hate* waiting 1000's of years for my diamonds.

I like the voiceover, it's really easier to understand for someone like me whose mother tongue is not english.

I hope the lab situation got handled.. Although the voiceover might help us out with understanding, YOUR voice is what makes the channel unique and you should keep it that way. Plus, you save money since you don't have to pay anyone or AI to do a voiceover. Authentic overrules a Saturated Voice

Seems I remember an article about rich acetylene production of micro diamonds

I was told that the artificial diamond industry was forced by Beers to add nitrogen such that these diamonds are yellow. They are scared that artificial diamonds are perfect like silicon wafers, no inclusions, no defects.

Here a idea. For all the people like me make second channel with same video but with your voice or just upload 2 video on this channel one like this and one with original voice. Ever body will be heppy than. Happy holidays.

My favorite lab-grown gem is opal. I actually own one!

Bro upgraded to the Netflix dub over LOL. I can't hate

Dude your English is fine and much better than some voice over. Don't listen to anyone who tells you different, I trust and respect your true voice much more than a voice actor that doesn't understand what you are saying.

Ahaa, in the fire in you laboratory have mixed unmixable chemicals and instead pile of charcoal your laboratory become a pile of diamonds 😀

how about an update on the lab?

Oh god I hate that this is one of the last videos we may ever get from you 😩 We all want to have your own voice 😭

I like the new voiceover, the old wasn’t bad but this is enjoyable too

I won't share a link to another channel, but there is a video on RU-vid of someone making real diamonds in a home lab. I think it would be interesting to see if you could reproduce it. Oddly, they appear to do it somehow without pressure. The video is produced by a legitimate broadcasting company, so I do not feel it is fake.

DeBeers is all but American. Speaking from South Africa, where they have been mining for ages and established. I myself work for Anglo American in the Iron Ore industry, previously from Platinum.

I love the design of the new accent, very human

While I do understand wanting the fluent voice over, I’d love alternate videos with the old narration. We understood you just fine, and it was a unique draw of the channel

Thank you Kamil😊 And please. Your own voice 😮

We miss “hallo eryone”. Please use your real voice again!!! Great channel and charming presenter! Glad to see you are up and running again 😃

Most underated channel 👌

I have an idea, maybe it is possible to create diamonds using a cubane based alcohol (C8H4(OH)4) and sulfuric acid.

I always thought these diamond laser cells were much bigger

Yeah as soon as I seen the comments, I didn't even bother playing this video, I'm not giving him anymore play for being a fake !

I miss the old voice over.

@10:18 OH! I thought we were looking through one of the diamond anvils during the preparation steps. These arrows would have been better served if they came earlier in the video.

i guess this is still many new and interesting ;)

Thanks!

Please we want your voice to make a comeback also you haven't done a video on calcium in your elemental series make it complete!!!!!, it's just like seeing something being close to perfection

Ah Hello Gordon Freeman

THOISOIII! pogs. i agree, you should do the voiceovers yourself again, if at all possible... :D but you may have good reasons not to. i imagine it takes a lot of time versus just giving a transcript to someone to do it. :)

Listening to your new guy makes it easier to understand so I need a bit less attention on understanding you, but it does not feel the same...

i miss your own voice so much! i loved your accent

Could you make a compression fllux magnet with boron nitride.

"we also performed a Ray-man SPECtroscopy"

That face on your cat resembles my wife whenever I record her in the bathroom

Ok - 2 seconds in and I'm already pissed off. I expect to hear a voice that sounds like I imagine Mendeleev sounded like. Bring it back.

Out of interest, can you test various diamonds for the content of carbon 14? I have been told all diamonds have it even though with old age theories of the age of rocks all carbon 14 should be gone. Was wondering what results you would get.

how many time we will have to complain about the original voice... uff

What it can be done with a hex wrench? That’s weird i would have thought it would require way more equipment.

I happy too see this meow meow ❤❤

imagine getting a heart from thoisoi2

Good details

Wait?! What's happening here! Where has my Thiosol ?

Not that it matters much, but I didn't think De Beers was ever an American or USA company. I'm not sure why Anglo American chose that name, but at least online it shows them as being head quartered somewhere in Africa and then later London.

Sometimes you don't know what you have until it's gone. Bring back your voice pleeese. Love your videos! 🫶

How do I get the original voice for the video?

Would be nice to have a universal constructor, atomic 3d printer.

1:42 hmmmmmmm

I just saw the video about your lab burning. Sorry to hear about that, and I hope you recover fully from the loss. Please do bring your own voice back to the channel as soon as you can though. As the comments show, most people don't like the voiceover. We want to hear YOU, not somebody reading a script, with no knowledge of the subject being discussed.

Diamonds are two a penny. The market is full of man made ones and it is really hard to spot them. About a 1/3 of diamonds bought now are man made and in the pool. The price of them is inflated so much and is one of the biggest cons going.

You put it up thoisoi's but!!!😅😅😅

[Looks around at burnt down lab] Hmm... there is a lot of carbon around here now. I wonder if I've done a video on that recently? 🤔

I thought you would take the cell to Finland for Laury to crush🙃