New science of bruning solids with liquids

Have you ever though about one day you may have a big rock on your ring finger? I have. It may just be a girl thing though considering diamonds are a girls best friend. Diamonds are considered the hardest substance. Its not easy breakable either. Diamonds have chemical bonds holding them together. But how do you get a chunk of diamond to be shiny and square to be put in a ring? Just heating the diamond wont do the trick. There are certain machines that are used to cut diamonds into shapes. The article I took a look at was about how to burn a diamond. We all know its possible to cut a diamond but how can you set fire to a diamond? If you use a heating torch it makes the diamond glow. It will eventually catch fire. The fire cannot sustain itself in regular air so to keep fire going you have to gently blow oxygen gas on it. They found that if you burn a diamond and put some liquid oxygen on it that it will burn much longer. Still it doesn't burn very long but longer than blowing the oxygen gas on it. So the man thought what if I put it in a bowl of the liquid oxygen? When he put it in the bowl of liquid oxygen it burned for a longer length then the two before. It was pretty cool to see that something like a diamond was burning in something so cold like liquid nitrogen.

My thoughts on the article were amazed. I couldn't believe that diamonds could actually burn, and then using liquid oxygen to make it burn longer. I mean in the future how magnificent would it be if we could use this to break something down? Like lets say if we had a really hard chemical bond or an element and if was just as hard as a diamond and we needed to shape it or break it apart. If someone came along and said that they could use this method to get the job done. Think how this could effect the future. Think how this could effect science and just our every day life. Everything around could be heated up and to keep it burning put into liquid oxygen so we could bend or break the material. The article did not mention anything that it could be used for in the future that was just my own opinion. The article was good to read because it explained things about diamond that I didn't know before reading it and then the video that went along with it actually showed the man doing the experiment. If you would like to see the video the link is inn the description below.

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-08/burn-diamonds-torch-and-liquid-oxygen

Article
Gray, Theodore. "Gone In a Flash: Burning Diamonds With a Torch and Liquid Oxygen."Popular Science. N.p., 08 Oct. 2009. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.