Alber knows that they actually do shine.
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Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yet another way this is wrong: the primary cause of the adamantine lustre of diamonds is refraction. Any old hunk of metal can reflect light.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Isn’t it caused by internal reflection? That, by definition, is what happens when the light doesn’t refract out of the diamond.
DoYouNot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rhianna and Einstein both know something about black bodies.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Albert knows that they actually do shine. In infrared
TransSynthesist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Unless they’re a crazy diamond!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
If a post labeled, essentially, ‘idiot’, has two English mistakes in glurge written for a genius, is that irony?
yesman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nothing is more on brand than a language pedant making grammar mistakes. What do you expect of person who thinks memorizing rules is the hallmark of intelligence?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Like rain on your wedding day.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If that gets stuck in my head I’m gonna be so fucking mad.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I mean, “Shine bright like a 120w LED light bulb” doesn’t sounds good.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 months ago
The “shining” nature of diamonds is not due to their reflective properties, it’s due to how they refract.
culpritus@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Diamond also has a very high refractive index and a relatively high optical dispersion.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
i mean, they reflect too, everything reflects, though we generally mean specular reflection but diamons have that too when they’re polished nicely.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Everything shines, everything reflects…
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
boomer meme that i probably upvoted on facebook in 2012
rainerloeten@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Didn’t SIA wrote it and allegedly in like 30 minutes or so?
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Diamonds*
IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
How about shine like a quasar
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Soleos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cute, but no. The definition of shining is not limited to emitting light.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Einstein was clearly no etymologist
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I can never remember the difference between etymology and entomology and I can’t put into words how much that bugs me.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Well awktshualy…the definition says reflect, and while diamonds reflect internally, they refract light externally, so, the diamond is not bright because it reflects (those reflections are on the inside) they shine because they refract
Soleos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well awktshualy, read the whole definition entry. Pendants are always so eager to ignore lay meanings.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
But isn’t their shine mostly due to the internal reflection rather than external refraction? That’s why the gems are cut angularly, to help with the internal reflection.