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

10mm diameter

Ah, so still not quite Cullinan-scale yet. Optical quality is probably better though.

I'm surprised diamonds aren't used more for lenses. Given its high index of refraction, it seems like an ideal material.

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

Yeah, the optical quality seems to be the main point. I assume there's few fields where that level of precision is worth it though. I doubt we're about to see it on an iPhone any time soon.

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