For instance,
the tiny diamond tips can be used to monitor hard drive quality.
This is how the identification of smallest magnetic fields with diamond sensors works: in
the tiny diamond tip, two adjacent carbon atoms are being removed and one of the resulting vacancies is replaced by a nitrogen atom.
Not exact matches
The researchers performed hundreds of indentation tests on
tiny olivine crystals less than a centimeter square and found that the olivine crystal became weaker as the size of the
diamond tip increased.
Slicing away at a piece of volcanic rock using a
tiny diamond -
tipped saw while keeping track of every microscopic wisp of volcanic dust — accurately documenting the final weight of the sample that was left behind.