Don’t Try This at Home

Abazias.com has just joined the trend of YouTube submitters creating videos of various experiments, especially ones involving certain items in a blender. The company has decided to take quite an expensive route to make their point and educate people a bit more about diamonds. To do this they actually placed a real half carat diamond engagement ring set in 14K gold into a blender and set it at ice crusher mode. While most people tend to think that as the toughest substance known to man it can withstand any type of manhandling and is immune to destruction. But as the video will show, the diamond actually didn’t stand a chance against the blender. The fact is that diamonds are the hardest substance, not an indestructible substance. In fact, diamonds can shatter quite easily. What people don’t understand is that a tough substance can actually break quite easily and is even easier to break than a softer substance. Just think of glass or even metal as opposed to wood. It would be almost impossible to scratch a diamond with a softer substance but it will shatter if you just as much as drop it on a hard floor. It’s an interesting lesson to learn but one you definitely don’t want to try at home…