Can diamonds be burnt? How many degrees would it take to burn a diamond?

Do NOT try burning a diamond at HOME! Diamonds DO burn and they can also easily explode when burning. Diamond shards are then thrown at extreme pressures and can actually be fatal. Never burn a diamond unless you are properly equipped to do so with safety-gear etc.

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Your friend should NOT, I repeat, SHOULD NOT propose to his fiance by exploding the box. It is dangerous and will definitely damgage the ring if not his chances of her saying yes. Diamonds can burn. Just take a torch to a diamond and you'll see that it will start to burn. This makes perfect sense when you take into consideration that diamonds are made of pure carbon, which reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (and when I say that carbon “reacts with oxygen” its just another way of saying “burns”).

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Yes, diamonds can be burned. It would take approximately 1405 degrees of heat to burn a diamond.

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You must remember that diamonds are very similar to charcoal in terms of their chemical properties. This means that under appropriate heating conditions, a diamond could also be burned. And by appropriate heating conditions, I mean it takes extreme temperatures to do so. The melting point of a diamond is 3550 degrees Celsius. Furthermore, to reach a diamond's boiling point you would need to increase the temperature by even more than 1000 degrees, as a diamond's melting point stands at 4827 degrees Celsius!

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You can burn diamonds (Although it has to be at very high temperatures) but you can ALSO burn gold, platinum or almost any other metal. Tell your friend he's better off leaving it in the box without all the explosives if he doesn't want to damage his precious purchase.

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