GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -No, peanut butter can not be turned into diamonds. Peanut butter is made from peanuts which come from plants. Diamonds are either created in a lab or mined out of the ground and come from mineral sources.

Detailed explanation-2: -Diamonds are made of carbon so they form as carbon atoms under a high temperature and pressure; they bond together to start growing crystals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dan Frost of Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut has been creating diamonds out of a rather unlikely source of carbon: peanut butter. Frost explained his process to BBC Future’s David Robinson.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first method plants a diamond seed into high heat and pressure. As the carbon melts it starts to form diamond crystals around the starter seed. It’s then cooled to form a pure carbon diamond. The second method places a diamond seed into a sealed heated chamber that is then filled with a carbon-rich gas.

Detailed explanation-5: -That is why diamonds cost a lot more than coal. A one pound diamond is worth anywhere from $2-6M depending on its grade. A pound of coal is worth a few pennies. Paradoxically, though diamonds cost more than coal, coal is more valuable.