Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:00:51 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:00:49 -0700 Organization: highland technology Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 X-Trace: sv3-IDGiiuPWUotwVHcNn0RV/gp45Gjjuuz+pN/DVIaDkz4JXYRXdyCxoeWQg6yTFaMokMtgharEP1UmlWd!6EB8b4f2ajD39py1M8c++QRQ10ya3K4+qnLVFMUnb3mh2JZwBDBMxcAlj2GdmLAh4yr1sETDyX9w!0m0Vbg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2532 On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:04:54 -0700, boB wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:38:15 +1000, Bill Sloman >wrote: > >>On 31/07/2024 3:46 am, john larkin wrote: >>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:46:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje >>> 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 >>>> >>>> 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. >> >>Wrong. Diamond is light, hard, strong and has very high thermal >>conductivity. You can buy synthetic diamond heat-sinks right now. >> >>https://www.msesupplies.com/products/diamond-heat-sink-thermal-conductivity-1500w-m-k?variant=39601902846010 >> >>-- >>Bill Sloman, Sydney > > >Would love to have some diamond (man-made is fine) heat sink >insulator material ! > >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.