Have diamonds found their way into other industrial cooling solutions? With the research into gem grade diamonds, I have been expecting cheap ugly synthetic diamonds to be used in more products. I have long joked that I want a diamond frying pan.
Part of the argument is that better heat conduction means that you can run the nozzle cooler resulting in less heat conduction to the cold side (above where you want the filament to melt) so I guess its "cooling" in a sense too.
Not any more, their quality has increased recently. Not that I care, wife and I did without them during our engagement.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/10/sapphire-...
In short, I my watch has NOT had an easy life. I've made no attempt to protect it or taken it off for anything except charging. There is barely a mark on the screen. A sapphire screen will be a hard requirement for my next watch.
This is my second sapphire Garmin, and it's absolutely worth the premium.
Ever consider carrying a protein bar or two?
As for a reflective screen, the term for that is "shiny", and could be marketed as desirable - it signals that the owner has an expensive watch. It wouldn't interfere with use, unless the user was wearing a bright headlamp.
As long as you don’t use it on a gas stove, you should be fine.
Or you mean it'll catch fire? Also not a concern. That is supposed to happen at a temperature well above anything useful for cooking.
Should be safe on electrical stoves though.
There are some heady boundary-layer effects and temperature/temp-conductivity gradient physics involved here. For simplicity sake, consider a plastic [1] bag full to the brim with water, held over open flame. Will bag melt (oxidize, erode)?
[1] polyethylene melts around 120-ish °C and ignites around 220-350 °C (sources vary)