Synthetic diamonds may have just gotten way easier to make...These gems don’t require tremendous pressure to form.

FreeThink ^ | May 6, 2024 | Kristin Houser

[BipolarBob]

Why would they make the process known when they could make a fortune by just making diamonds on the cheap?

[HYPOCRACY]

I saw Superman crush a piece of coal in his bare hands and make it a diamond. He gave it to Lois. Cheapskate.

[Bayard]

Terribly written article doesn’t say what company they work for. IBS?

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Basic_Science

[Red Badger]

He did that on the Superman TV show to replace a idol’s eye that was stolen by some bad guys.............

[Red Badger]

Maybe it’s not patentable?..........................

[BipolarBob]

Then just make them and keep quiet on HOW they are made. DeBeers would pay a fortune to keep them off the market.

[Qwapisking]

no pressure there. still waiting for someone to come up with a way to spin straw into gold.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve never understood the passion for diamonds. I like colored stones.

[MikeSteelBe]

A lot of people probably do not know that diamonds are not rare. DeBeers controls the rarity by keeping them in a vault.

[zeugma]

Why would they make the process known when they could make a fortune by just making diamonds on the cheap?

The primary method these days of telling the difference between "natural" and man-made diamonds is that man-made diamonds don't have flaws.they are actually better than the real thing by almost any metric you care to name, yet idiots will still pay actual money for diamonds that they think are 'natural'. Carbon is one of the most common elements on this planet.I never have understood why people have been so hoodwinked by deBeers for so long.

[ansel12]

Speaking of Lois Lane, I guess you heard about how the Invisible Man suffered that incredible injury from Superman.

[wally_bert]

Dan Briggs and Barney Collier used a diamond making machine to stop a villain in early Mission Impossible.

The usual sleight of hand and mechanical trickery.

The Diamond - episode title.

[Bayard]

Thanks! All my searches had been returning to me articles about stuff happening in the inside of peoples rectums.

Acronyms can be terribly misleading.

[HYPOCRACY]

Ah. I remember that episode.

[Organic Panic]

““chemical vapor deposition” (CVD)”

I hope it works. I spend a fortune on specialty cutters that use CVD technology. It takes a $100 cutter and makes it a $600 cutter.

[Nateman]

Using lasers you can actually carve diamonds into desired shapes. Imagine making an artificial blue diamond layer then cutting a face into it. Deposit a clear diamond layer on top of that. Viola! Custom diamond art!

[Red Badger]

I can see the Elvis crowd doing it now................

[Glad2bnuts]

It is not the natural diamond that impresses the ladies, it is because it costs so much. I would cut that *$(*&W#(* loose in a heartbeat. If you are looking for a nice looking ring, gold setting and a man made diamond should suffice.