Diamondoid

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Diamondoid

Technology > Application > Construction
Galactography > Other Major Polities, Empires, and Meta-Empires > Diamond Network
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Drytech/Hylotech
Technology > Technology Levels > High Tech / Hitech
Technology > Application > Materials Technology
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Nanotech

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The Inflorescence, forming the top 205 meters of the famed Diotallevi Spire, is the largest freestanding pure diamondoid structure on the Keterist world of Foucault. Weighing in at over one megatonne, it is regarded by many as the pinnacle of Early Surmounter 'Monomaterial' architecture.

Strong materials consisting exclusively of allotropes of carbon in regular crystalline, planar or tubular configurations.

Diamondoid materials are extensively used for building purposes, as they are strong under tension, and under compression; pure diamond itself is brittle, but aggregate materials are both stronger and more flexible. Diamondoid materials are used in the construction of many large scale habitats, such as Bishop Rings and McKendree Cylinders; however the largest radius for a rotating habitat made from diamondoid materials is a little over a thousand kilometres (assuming I gee of centrifugal acceleration), and most are smaller than this in order to accommodate internal landscaping and accommodation.

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Examples of diamondoid include pure diamond (in particular nanoassembled perfect crystalline diamond), Adamant, graphene, carbon nanotubes, aggregated carbon nanorods, pandifico and diamondoid computronium. Many drytech devices are constructed of diamondoid components, including devices down to the nanoscale level. Some computing devices (such as rod-logic computers) are largely constructed of diamondoid.

The so-called Diamond Network AI entities are so-named because many or most of the early individuals in that empire used diamondoid computronium almost exclusively; today this is no longer the case, but the name is retained for historical reasons.

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A piece of 'classical' diamondoid, delicately balanced on its point. Although often thought of as a clear bulk solid, diamondoid comes in a great variety of colors and forms

Adamant
Buckyball - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Short for buckminsterfullerene, and part of a larger class of molecules known as as fullerenes, the third form of carbon. Any of a number of roughly spherical molecule formed of a large number of carbon atoms. The smallest and most common form of buckminsterfullerene is C60; it has 60 carbon atoms in a soccer-ball shape, but there are many variants. The third form of carbon. After atomic age visionary thinker and inventer R. Buckminster Fuller's building designs.
Carapace Armor
Carbon
Carbon Nanotube
Computronium
Corundumoid
Fullerene
Pandifico: Elastic Diamondoid Fiber Composites
Woven Graphene

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Development Notes

Text by M. Alan Kazlev
from Anders Sandberg's Transhumanist Terminology
Initially published on 09 October 2001.

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