Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:04:54 -0700, boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:38:15 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 31/07/2024 3:46 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:46:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
https://www.space.com/mercury-diamond-layer-10-miles-thick-nasa-messenger#main
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Now there is an incentive to go!

 
Diamond, like gold, is valuable because it's rare. Accessing cubic
miles of diamonds would trash its value.

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Wrong. Diamond is light, hard, strong and has very high thermal
conductivity. You can buy synthetic diamond heat-sinks right now.
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https://www.msesupplies.com/products/diamond-heat-sink-thermal-conductivity-1500w-m-k?variant=39601902846010
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Bill Sloman, Sydney

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Would love to have some diamond (man-made is fine)  heat sink
insulator material ! 
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boB

If you mean an insulator between a power transistor and an aluminum or
copper heat sink, a thin aluminum nitride insulator would be almost as
good as diamond. Or hard anodize.

Really using the heat sink would require lateral heat spreading,
namely a big thick slab of diamond.