Actually, no! The activation energy for the conversion of diamond to graphite is about 540 kJ/mol, and using the Arrhenius equation to get the rate constant for diamond-graphite conversion, with a radiator temperature of 1900 K, we get that after 10,000 years of continuous operation, 99.95% of the diamond will still be diamond. At room temperature, the diamond-to-carbon conversion rate is slow enough that protons will decay before any appreciable amount of graphite is made.
Even for a 100,000 year burn, 99.5% of the diamond will still be intact at 1900 K.
There isn’t much room to ramp up the temperature, though. We can stick to around 99%+ of the diamond being intact up to around 2100 K, but 2200 K has 5% of the diamond converting, 2300 K has 15% converting, 2400K has 45%, and it’s 80 and 99% conversion of diamond into graphite over 10,000 years for 2500 K and 2600 K respectively.
Actually, no! The activation energy for the conversion of diamond to graphite is about 540 kJ/mol, and using the Arrhenius equation to get the rate constant for diamond-graphite conversion, with a radiator temperature of 1900 K, we get that after 10,000 years of continuous operation, 99.95% of the diamond will still be diamond. At room temperature, the diamond-to-carbon conversion rate is slow enough that protons will decay before any appreciable amount of graphite is made.
Even for a 100,000 year burn, 99.5% of the diamond will still be intact at 1900 K.
There isn’t much room to ramp up the temperature, though. We can stick to around 99%+ of the diamond being intact up to around 2100 K, but 2200 K has 5% of the diamond converting, 2300 K has 15% converting, 2400K has 45%, and it’s 80 and 99% conversion of diamond into graphite over 10,000 years for 2500 K and 2600 K respectively.