# If I had super strength, could I squeeze coal into diamonds?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-super-strength-could-i-squeeze-coal-into-diamonds/504121
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [July 24, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-super-strength-could-i-squeeze-coal-into-diamonds/504121 "2009-07-24T14:11:43Z")
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### Author:  [@manderso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manderso)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-super-strength-could-i-squeeze-coal-into-diamonds/504121/41 "2009-08-03T18:20:59Z")
Una, good research, but check out Justice League #9, The Origin of the Justice League. In it Superman is confronted by a being made of Diamond, well, I’ll let the dialogue speak for itself: Snapper Carr speaks up suddenly…" Whoa, Superman, I know you can change coal into diamond by rubbing it with your super-hands—but how could you change diamond into Coal? Quite simply, Snapper— I simply rubbed the diamond being wrong way! I don’t read you—but you have such hi-fi thoughts, I’ll just cool my engine until I’m on your wavelength!(snapper)." So, not only can Superman create diamonds out of coal, he can reverse the process.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-super-strength-could-i-squeeze-coal-into-diamonds/504121/42 "2009-08-03T21:10:49Z")
> [@manderso](#):
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> Una, good research, but check out Justice League #9, The Origin of the Justice League. In it Superman is confronted by a being made of Diamond, well, I’ll let the dialogue speak for itself: Snapper Carr speaks up suddenly…" Whoa, Superman, I know you can change coal into diamond by rubbing it with your super-hands—but how could you change diamond into Coal? Quite simply, Snapper— I simply rubbed the diamond being wrong way! I don’t read you—but you have such hi-fi thoughts, I’ll just cool my engine until I’m on your wavelength!(snapper)." So, not only can Superman create diamonds out of coal, he can reverse the process.
That’s pretty interesting. The next time I go to the comic store I’ll look that one up.
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### Author:  [@carlzajr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlzajr)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-super-strength-could-i-squeeze-coal-into-diamonds/504121/43 "2009-08-03T21:41:40Z")
My daughter just two months ago solved a problem i have with what & where do i want my “remains” to be kept after i die… Traditional burial, yuck! In a jar as ashes locked in a tiny, expensive darkness…scattered and blown all over the planet or floated down the ganges as birds peck, eat & turn me into poop…no way!
My daughter knows of a company that can use the carbon left after cremation, press it into a diamond she can wear, allowing us to be together, a sparkling way my remains can remind her of my love for her, it will be not only my birthstone (april) but my eternal stone, a reminder and the eyes to my legacy of family as they live on through the years…and everyone knows ‘‘diamonds are forever’’…
Carl w…
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### Author:  [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-super-strength-could-i-squeeze-coal-into-diamonds/504121/44 "2009-08-07T14:03:19Z")
Has Superman ever squeezed a lump of weapons grade Plutonium? What happened? Would that be his idea of a hand-warmer?
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