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Diamonds can now be created from scratch in the lab in just 15 minutes (www.earth.com)

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[–] slazer2au 68 points 1 week ago (27 children)

The diamonds produced using this method are minuscule, hundreds of thousands of times smaller than those grown with the HPHT method. Hence, these diamonds are far too small for jewelry applications.

Ah, there's the catch.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Not a catch, majority of diamonds are used in industries and need to be small.

[–] paraphrand 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It’s a catch when your perspective is hoping it will impact the negatives of the jewelry industry.

[–] Almrond 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem wouldn't be fixed even then. The jewelery companies have people convinced that the only diamonds that are worth it are mined from the earth by a real human slave. Fixing that problem has nothing to do with gemstones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

companies have people convinced that the only diamonds that are worth it are mined from the earth by a real human slave

Is this still the case? I feel like I've seen "conflict free" as a selling point for (presumably labgrown) diamonds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Me too. I've also heard synthetic gemstones can have colours and structures unlike anything that can form naturally. I want one of those, so that nobody would mistake it for a mined stone.

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