Yes you heard it right, finally someone out there is putting money into the sciences that really matter! In this article I am going to teach you where this idea started from and exactly what goes into the process of turning tequila into everyone's favorite shinny rock.

A team of scientist based out of mexico started looking into ways to create diamonds from organic solutions such as ethanol, methanol, and acetone. The team realized that diluting ethanol in water resulted in very high quality diamond films. This lead them to realize that the ideal compound of 40 percent ethanol and 60 percent water was very similar to that of the proportion ratio in tequila!! Even more interesting, it turns out that tequila's ratio of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon lies perfectly within the "diamond growth region."

Researchers Javier Morales, Luis Miguel Apatiga, and Victor Manuel Castano from the National Autonomous University of Mexico state that " the resulting diamonds films could have inexpensive commercial applications as electrical insulators." (Psys.org) Diamond films are important because they are used commercially for such things as a circuit boards and certain tools (diamond drill bits) and are often harder to find in nature as aposed to the diamonds used in jewlery.