Definition of nanodiamond in English:
nanodiamond
noun ˈnanə(ʊ)ˌdʌɪəməndˈnanōˌdīmənd
A diamond particle with dimensions of only a few nanometres.
you can't actually see them, because at roughly five nanometres long, nanodiamonds are invisible to the naked eye
Example sentencesExamples
- Single nanodiamonds are forged in an explosion of TNT, the explosive hexogen, and water.
- This vial contains about 60 quintillion (6 followed by 16 zeros) of these "nanodiamonds.".
- Older than our Sun, those objects contain nanodiamonds that are remnants of the ISM.
- The nanodiamonds would have to be produced near the quasar itself.
- The microscopic nanodiamonds in Allende consist of roughly 1,000 carbon atoms each.
- Raty and his colleagues calculated that quantum confinement doesn't exist in nanodiamonds, even down to sizes as small as two nanometers across.
- He confirms, however, that nanodiamonds may one day prove important for technological applications.
- To test whether such structures could exist in the real world, the team purchased a batch of nanodiamonds that had been created with high explosives and hit the particles with x rays.
- In 1987, microscopically small fragments of diamond, called "nanodiamonds," were recovered from meteorites that predate the solar system.