From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:va2mum$3fqc7$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   That's true, but I did run across a reference (Stefan Gotteswinter video   
   maybe) to an actual diamond attached to a tool.  There are also coatings   
   that are called diamond, although most are actually DLC "diamond like   
   coatings."   
   Bob La Londe   
      
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   I've watched an optical lathe turn a Germanium lens for a military vehicle   
   thermal imager with a clear single crystal diamond bit with the geometry of   
   brazed carbide. It may have been synthetic, the laser diodes I had for the   
   inter-satellite communications project were mounted on thin sheets of   
   artificial diamond on a gold-plated copper heatsink. Diamond is an excellent   
   conductor of heat but an electrical insulator.   
      
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