Diamonds

[Guest]

Russian scientists are perfecting SINthetc diamonds, yo. debeers are sweating as the quality - for all intent and purposes - is indistiguishable from the natural ones.

debeers are considering to put microscopic signiture on their product.

I'll buy a Russian stuff if I really, really have to buy one.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Russian scientists are perfecting SINthetc diamonds, yo. debeers are sweating as the quality - for all intent and purposes - is indistiguishable from the natural ones.

debeers are considering to put microscopic signiture on their product.

I'll buy a Russian stuff if I really, really have to buy one.

It's pretty amazing how they make fake ones.... They put carbon in molten metal, heat it up and pressurize it for a month... Then they remove excess nitrogren, then make something fall into invisible pockets, so that it won't be a red diamond or a orange, but clear.

 

[Guest]

It's pretty amazing how they make fake ones.... They put carbon in molten metal, heat it up and pressurize it for a month... Then they remove excess nitrogren, then make something fall into invisible pockets, so that it won't be a red diamond or a orange, but clear.

I don't know if I call them ''fake'' anymore. There was a TV program about it on BBC2 over a year ago. I don't know my wording is correct, but those artificial diamonds are minerologically (my inventive term) impossible to distinguish from none artificial ones.

They can also make those pretty colored diamonds. I like green ones because they look like emerald. LOL

 

[peachykeen]

well i do think they are quite pretty, but hardly worth the price. And I saw that BBC show as well, so I say, bring 'em on! Flood the market!

Incidentally, my husband and I elected not to spend money needlessly on rings. Ordered some nice silver celtic knot ones from the Signals catalog for $40 each. The sad thing is we have both lost them. But at least we didn't lose a load of dough as a result. So now we just hav naked fingers, and don't feel any less married for it. But if someday in the future he wants to surprise me with a nice diamond, I won't say no!

 

[alexandraaah]

It's pretty amazing how they make fake ones.... They put carbon in molten metal, heat it up and pressurize it for a month... Then they remove excess nitrogren, then make something fall into invisible pockets, so that it won't be a red diamond or a orange, but clear.

Is it considered a diamond? I mean, does it have the same components of a natural diamond?

 

[Guest]

Is it considered a diamond? I mean, does it have the same components of a natural diamond?

Yes. Flowless.

 

[alexandraaah]

Yes. Flowless.

I assume you mean flawless.

That's fascinating, why wouldn't DeBeer's just jump on that wagon and buy up those, I wonder?

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

That's great that they're perfecting lab created diamonds. There have been lab created emeralds and saphires for a long time and I was wondering when the'd come up with diamonds. That should make them more readily available, especially since deBeers doesn't control them. The emeralds that are lab created, for the most part, are better. They have better color and fewer imperfections. They've brought the price of emeralds down quite a bit. Mineralogically, there's no difference between real and "created" emeralds, but they are differentiated at the place of sale. Therefore, the "dug from the ground" emeralds, though inferior in quality most of the time, cost a lot more than the lab created ones. Probably the same thing will happen with diamonds.

They are very pretty stones. Gotta admit that. They refract light so well and make for many pretty colors.

 

[Guest]

I assume you mean flawless.

Alex is my spelling buddy. Yay!

 

[Spinaroonie]

That's fascinating, why wouldn't DeBeer's just jump on that wagon and buy up those, I wonder?

Seeing as how they already restrict how many diamonds are imported from Russia, they aren't grabbing these up as to create an artificial shortage.