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Diamond is an astonishingly good heat conductor

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While people obsess over its shiny appearance, diamond hides a vastly more impressive superpower in plain sight. Its tightly interlocked crystalline carbon structure transfers extreme thermal energy with absolute perfection. If you press a pure solid diamond against a chunk of ice, it acts like a brutal thermal knife, effortlessly slicing completely through the solid frozen lattice.

Diamond is an astonishingly good heat conductor
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