Making the world's most expensive carbonated water!

how to hook it up to one of those kitchen soda makers. I decided to go with the SodaStream brand and everything was relatively easy. All I needed was a small section of high pressure hose, two quick release adapters, and another adapter to screw onto the SodaStream. I was able to find all of these pieces on Amazon, which was convenient, but they were all overpriced. For the actual SodaStream, I just went out and bought the cheapest model. To set it up, I removed the back, screwed on the adapter, and attached one side of the hose to it.

To attach the pressure chamber, I drilled a small hole in the side and slid the flange on. I thought the best and easiest way to hold it there was to just tie it to the side, and it seemed to work pretty well. I then connected the other end of the hose to the valve and finally finished the setup. I did some quick tests to make sure the system wasn't leaking or anything like that, and everything seemed fine. So now I guess I was finally ready to try to make the diamond out of

water

. For the combustion setup I started by adding the quartz tube and this time clamped it, rather than just balancing it.

Then I placed a bubbler with a small amount of

water

, which would wash away all the CO2 gas that was produced. This would probably add a little moisture though, so I followed up with another bubbler that was filled with drying salt. Then I introduced it directly into the test tube and into the Dewar from before, and began loading the quartz tube, with all the diamonds. After all my little tests and a few other things, I had about three and a half grams of diamond left and I decided to use them all. When all this was finally done, I sealed the end with a plug that was pre-installed with the oxygen feed.

I then opened the oxygen tank and carefully adjusted the oxygen flow, watching the water bubbler. The main purpose of the bubbler here was to flush the gas, but it was also very useful for measuring how much was flowing through the system. When I felt like I was going at a good, steady pace, I filled the Dewar with some liquid nitrogen and then started blowing up the diamonds with a blowtorch. As before, the diamonds slowly began to glow bright red and I realized that they were reacting with oxygen. They were definitely burning up and turning into carbon dioxide, but I didn't see any dry ice forming, and this worried me.

I knew there was a lot of oxygen that had to first be expelled from the system before the CO2 got there, but I wasn't sure if that was really what was happening. It was also possible that I had a leak and was somehow losing my entire precious CO2 diamond. Honestly, I started to get a little worried and thought it might be a total failure, but then it started working. However, along with all this nice dry ice, the unreacted oxygen was also liquefying, and it was going to collect a lot of it. I initially thought this might have been a problem, but it actually turned out to be a good thing.

It prevented dry ice from building up, solidifying on the side, and potentially blocking the tube. At first I thought this was only going to take about 10 minutes, but the whole process took over an hour, which killed me. The reaction that was happening here was quite simple and diamond, which is al

most

pure carbon, reacted with oxygen to produce CO2. As this reaction occurs, the diamond slowly disappears, and when it's over, it should practically be gone. However, even in the very pure diamond, there is always a small amount of impurity that will be left behind. I deliberately opted for the white diamond, because it is one of the purest shapes.

Many other diamonds can have a slight color due to impurities and would probably have been fine to wear. However, I just wanted the CO2 to be as pure as possible and avoid as much pollution as possible. When I was done, I took out the tube and there was a lot of dry ice at the bottom, but there was also a lot of liquid oxygen. Getting rid of the oxygen was easy though and I just had to shake the tube and let everything evaporate. As I did this, it slowly sounded more and more solid and eventually all I was left with was the dry ice.

At the time I was planning to throw it directly into the pressure chamber, but I really wanted to see how much I got. In something warm, though dry ice would sublimate very quickly, so to minimize the loss I made a very cold watch glass. I was able to empty just about everything in the tube and was honestly surprised at how much dry ice there was. I was also very happy that this project seemed to be working, and I was actually still a little impressed that this all came from the diamond. I weighed the tube before and after emptying it and my yield was 10.5g, but in theory I should have gotten around 12.8g.

However, I think some CO2 was missing, because it was able to leave the tube before being frozen by the liquid nitrogen. There could also have been leaks in my system and I could have also lost some when trying to weigh it. Either way, I still had a lot more than I needed and the next thing I had to do was load it all into the camera. I just threw it all out as fast as I could and quickly screwed the lid on. The pipe I used as a chamber here was also much smaller, and that was because I scaled it based on the amount of dry ice I got.

All of the dry ice slowly vaporized over the course of about 15 minutes and the pressure increased to about 800 psi. I waited another half hour just to make sure all the dry ice had converted back to gas and I was pretty much done. Now I had this weird cross-shaped pressure chamber and all I had to do was connect it to the SodaStream. Since the chamber was much smaller now, I had to make a new hole for the flange. That didn't take a minute, though, and then I held the camera, connected the tubing, loaded a small bottle full of cold water, and opened the valve.

Now I was finally ready to water my diamond, but I was honestly quite nervous because I really felt like I was going to mess it up somehow. However, after a few minutes of psyching myself up, I went ahead, pressed the button, and the diamond gas started flowing into the bottle. When I felt like it was done I took it off and a bunch of bubbles formed the moment the pressure was released. However, I made sure to cover it quickly to try to lose as little gas as possible. To make this bottle I used practically all the CO2 that was in the chamber, but there was still a very small amount left.

Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to carbonate anything else and I decided to keep it. I thought it would be cool to conserve a small amount of CO2 from the diamond, but I really have no purpose for it. But anyway now, after spending over $1000 and weeks of working on this, I'm finally done. From what I could see, I had successfully

carbonated

water using diamonds, and I was honestly surprised that it worked so well. At over $1000 for this bottle, although not counting labor, I still wasn't sure if it was really worth all the work and money. However, I was really hoping that once I tried it and experienced the amazing taste of diamond CO2, all those doubts would disappear.

Well, it's finally time to try it out and see how it is. So... you know, exactly like sparkling water. Weeks of work to have something indistinguishable from regular sparkling water. Honestly, it's a little worse than regular sparkling water, because I just used tap water and ran it through a Brita filter before carbonating it. I think I'm even thinking about using better quality water. And the tap water in my office, or yes, here, tastes horrible on its own. The Brita brings back a lot of the flavor and makes it not taste absolutely terrible, but I think the Brita makes it taste good, but in hindsight I should use something better, and now it just tastes like regular soda water or maybe. slightly lower.

But knowing it contains diamonds, or diamond CO2, intrinsically makes it even better. Well, it turned out that it was no different than regular

carbonated

water, and in fact I was hoping that would be the case. Carbon dioxide is just carbon dioxide, and it doesn't matter if it comes from diamonds or from burning something like gasoline. It will always be CO2, which means it will have the same chemical properties and the same taste. Despite this, I still really like the idea of ​​diamond water and am still impressed by the fact that it worked so well. After trying it, I still had a nearly full bottle of water and poured the rest into a bunch of small vials.

However, I didn't feel it was appropriate to leave them like these vials unmarked, so I went out and had some nice custom stickers made. In total I was able to fill ten vials and

most

of them ended up being given to friends. However, I made sure to keep three of them and wanted to give them to you. If you want a chance to get one, you just need to follow the link in the description which will give you a few different ways to enter. They are all free and, for example, you can get two tickets simply by following a link to my YouTube or Instagram page.

You literally just follow the link to the page and that's it. If you want to subscribe or do something else while you're there, that would be great, but it's not necessary for the giveaway. To give everyone a chance, I think I'll leave this contest for about a week and then do the drawing for the winners. Oh, and plus, I'll ship the vials anywhere in the

world

absolutely free and include one of my beakers. But anyway I think that's all for now. I hope you enjoyed the video and I guess I'll see you next year. As always, a big shout out to all my followers on Patreon.

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