An Experiment to Differentiate Real Diamonds from Diamond Substitutes based on Their Response to Acoustic Waves

Author(s):

Aanal Jayesh Shah , Lalbhai Dalpatbhai College of Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustic waves, Diamond, Electronic sensor, Material Differentiation, Sound travel time in different materials

Abstract:

With the advent of science and technology life has become much easier for us. Since there are much better tools available now than before, making replicas is very easy. It is becoming harder to distinguish between real and duplicates manually. The existing devices and scientific procedures do not provide a generalized approach to this problem which does not require manual work. So, either they are specific solutions for only some materials or they are done manually. This experiment tries to create a solution for this problem by material differentiation based on their response to acoustic waves. Travel time taken by sound waves when passed through different media will be the factor for differentiation. Hence, we can use this method for any material. The setup consists of a microcontroller, a sound generator and receiver with object kept in between them and can be used as an electronic sensor. The current experiment is done on real diamond.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV4I4003
Published in	:	Volume : 4, Issue : 4
Publication Date	:	01/11/2017
Page(s)	:	1-3

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