Talk:Diamond dust

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I'm not positive that it was an actual occurrence of Diamond dust but my hometown experienced something akin to this the other night. Here is the link to the local newspaper article http://www.times-online.com/content/view/175533/60/ Calamitous (talk) 04:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Hi, questions after reading the article:

  • what is "dynamic arrest"?
  • are there exclusive antarctic conditions that allow diamond dust only to appear there?
  • what's the difference bewteen diamond dust and ice clouds? if they are the same, and ice clouds aren't unusual, then isn't it a contradiction to state that diamond dusts are unusual?

--69.212.100.126 08:48, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

(William M. Connolley 09:09, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)) Not sure about the DA bit: I think its a ref to the fact that water supercools in the atmos and ice clouds don't form till it gets really quite cold: I suspect DA is the point at which supercooling always breaks down.
AFAIK there is no real diff between DD and IC, apart from DD being near the ground and very thin. But I'm not sure. DD is not at all unusual in the ant; it is elsewhere.
Thanks for the clarification. I changed the article to now mention that it's a near ground phenomena, and tried to add what I think DA means, in my own words. I'm sure I butchered it so if anyone wants to write it more elegantly by all means. --69.212.100.126 09:16, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)


--Junglejob 22:18, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) Interesting article but wrongly positioned: this kind of "diamond dust" is not an abrasive. But real diamond dust or powder is used as sanding or polishing media and would need a specific article.

Aside[edit]

Mildly interesting side note, clearly not worth putting in main article- Diamond Dust is the name of an ice based spell in the Playstation game Final Fantasy VII, which features a cloud of ice shards forming around and damaging your opponent. Sorry- I'm both a geographer and a gamer! Coyote-37 5 July 2005 12:33 (UTC)

Yes, its the main attack of the summon Shiva and not only in FF VII appears, too in VIII, IX and many others (Shiva can be called GF, Aeon, Totema, Eidolon as many FFs has diferent ways to call a summon)

What about diamond dust?[edit]

I actually came looking for information about the manufacture and applications of diamond dust (i.e., powdered diamond). Rather surprised there wasn't at least a link to such an article, much less a disambig. 71.11.242.156 17:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Me too! Could be v. useful

A Google search for "Diamond dust" turns up a reference to Diamond powder as being the correct or preferred term for the dust of diamonds. It might be helpful if this was mentioned at the head of the article and on the disambiguation page, especially once the Diamond powder article is written. -- Cameron Dewe 08:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to Sandben Siberian Metereological phenomena book[edit]

A Google search for Sandben Siberian Metereological phenomena only returns the Wikipedia article. I suspect that the contribution by LambOfDog is a subtle attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia, so I am removing the reference to:

  • Sandben, S.: Siberian Metereological phenomena (1991-1999), 2nd edition, Novotsky Press

If anyone can properly cite this work, please quote the ISBN and provide page references, or identify other works that cite the reference. -- Cameron Dewe 08:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures[edit]

19:37, 4 July 2009 edit removed a useful picture and video links, so these were recovered. YouTube videos were those posted by an original author.--Shimada22 (talk) 06:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Now pictures and links to a picture and a video were added.--Shimada22 (talk) 19:46, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A pic would really fit this article! 91.155.157.163 19:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just uploaded a video to commons that might enhance this article. It pretty accurately represents what I saw with my naked eye. --Kevinbsmith (talk) 00:39, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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