My wife’s engagement ring is an emerald, I don’t think it was lab grown but it was way cheaper then a diamond and looks easy better then a piece of “glass”
I wonder if there’s anyone interested creating lab diamonds that have imperfections that essentially become indistinguishable from the mined ones. There wouldn’t be any money in it, but they could theoretically crash the blood diamond market.
Its already happened, its why big diamond cartels etch symbols into diamonds. They literally can’t tell the difference anymore.
Its not super common for them to do that as its at least unethical and illegal in some places. Plus unless your literally trying to counterfeit, why would you want a flawed diamond?
Lab grown emeralds are a couple hundred bucks and are way prettier than diamonds.
My wife has a Tanzanite engagement ring and loves talking about it
IMO it’s kind of romantic Tanzanite only comes from one single place.
Moissanite is an excellent diamond alternative if you want a clear stone. Cheaper, just as resilient, and sparkly as fuck.
Yup, it’s even what they use in their displays because they sparkle more than a diamond.
No I’m pretty sure that’s just so if there’s a robbery they aren’t stealing the good stuff.
My wife’s engagement ring is an emerald, I don’t think it was lab grown but it was way cheaper then a diamond and looks easy better then a piece of “glass”
My friend works with lab grown crystals and there re ones like lutetium aluminium garnet doped with cerium (LuAG:Ce) and similar which look awesome
I just looked them up, they’re almost like kryptonite, or TV Uranium. That’s so cool
I wonder if there’s anyone interested creating lab diamonds that have imperfections that essentially become indistinguishable from the mined ones. There wouldn’t be any money in it, but they could theoretically crash the blood diamond market.
Its already happened, its why big diamond cartels etch symbols into diamonds. They literally can’t tell the difference anymore.
Its not super common for them to do that as its at least unethical and illegal in some places. Plus unless your literally trying to counterfeit, why would you want a flawed diamond?