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Fun fact, diamond has 4x the thermal conductivity of copper.


May our children live to use high-end diamond cookware


I had to look up at what temperature diamonds start to oxidize/burn[0]: Different sources say different things but apparently it's somewhere between 700°C and 900°C (depending on the exact conditions I suppose).

I suppose that's enough for cookware?

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPyuDY3iq1Q


Your lower and is around the melting point of aluminum, that is in wide use in cookware.


Gas flames are easily hotter and exposure to flame can start burning below the autoignition temperature.


Maybe it could be used as an inner-layer in multi-layer cookware (like some pans use aluminum today)?


Even according to the article: "2,200 to 2,400 watts per meter per kelvin - roughly six times as conductive as copper.". It's way higher than copper in fact. Copper is ~400 W/(m·K)




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