Image Scientist Uses HPHT Presses to Study Planet Formation Oct. 4, 2018 To gemologists, the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) press speaks of synthetic diamond growth or newfangled methods of diamond color treatment. For Valerie Hillgren, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory, the presses that create these conditions are a means to another end: studying how the terrestrial planets of our solar system might have formed. Watch video Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 1 2 3 4 5 6 …
Image Scientist Uses HPHT Presses to Study Planet Formation Oct. 4, 2018 To gemologists, the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) press speaks of synthetic diamond growth or newfangled methods of diamond color treatment. For Valerie Hillgren, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory, the presses that create these conditions are a means to another end: studying how the terrestrial planets of our solar system might have formed. Watch video
