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A tip of this material is scanned over a sample and read out with ODMR in extremely sensitive vector magnetometers. The 2012 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for converting old Russian ammunition into this material by blowing up a TNT/RDX mixture. Room-temperature qubits can be implemented using the robust spin states of this material’s NV-centers. A high-pressure experimental device places a sample between two tips of this material in an (15[1])(*) “anvil cell.” Besides CVD, the other major method of manufacturing this material synthetically is the high-pressure high-temperature method. This material’s face-centered cubic lattice is shared by (10[1])elemental silicon. For 10 points, many industrial cutting edges (10[1])and drill tips are made of the synthetic variant of what (-5[1])very hard allotrope of carbon? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: diamonds [accept synthetic diamonds; accept detonation nanodiamonds; accept diamond cubic lattice]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Pranav SrambikkalLambertInnovation Academy B7015
Michael VadakumpaddanInnovation Academy CMississippi State9610
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech C10510
Darren KellisMiltonGeorgia Tech D116-5
Zach TsengGeorgia Tech DMilton12210

Summary

2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y2100%50%0%63.50
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y4100%25%25%98.25
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y5100%40%0%74.80