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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 (15[1])device places a sample between two tips of this material (15[1])in an (*) “anvil cell.” (10[1])Besides CVD, the other major method of manufacturing this material synthetically (10[1])is the high-pressure high-temperature method. This material’s face-centered cubic lattice (10[1])is shared by elemental silicon. For 10 points, many industrial cutting edges and drill tips are made of the synthetic variant of what very hard allotrope of carbon? ■END■

ANSWER: diamonds [accept synthetic diamonds; accept detonation nanodiamonds; accept diamond cubic lattice]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin FlanaganBristolSouthampton5815
Agnijo BanerjeeCambridge AImperial B6815
Rachel BenthamCambridge BImperial A7210
Albert NyangLSE AWarwick B8310
Chris LevesleyWarwick ALSE B9310

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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