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Relevant article on the synthetic diamond trade from Wired last year: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1
by paulgerhardt 16y ago
Relevant article on the synthetic diamond trade from Wired last year: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
edit: oops I mean 2003; 11.09 was the issue number
- steve19 16y agoDoes anybody know where I could buy a synthetic clear diamond?
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- weeksie 16y agoDon't bother they're about as expensive as natural clear diamonds.
- pbiggar 16y agoThey don't come any larger than 0.3 karats, which is too small for a solitaire. You can't get them to match either, which makes them bad for side stones. I tried. A good alternative is Canadian diamonds, which are not owned by DeBeers, not mined or polished by slaves, and not the cause of any conflict. That solves about half the problems with diamonds. Get them from Brilliant Earth (I'm not employed there, just a very satisfied customer.)
- steve19 16y agothanks for the tip.
- adamsmith 16y agoThough one could argue that by buying a 'clean' diamond you are increasing the prices for dirty ones. Not that that makes it immoral to do so. I wouldn't go that far.
- Rod 16y agoLifeGem sells synthetic diamonds in the .20 to .99 carat range. Either your claim is wrong, or LifeGem are crooks,
- pbiggar 16y agoIt must be my claim which is wrong. I was recounting what a sales person told me. It might instead be that they don't supply them, or might just have been an outright lie. That said, a one karat stone is no good as a solitaire (the book from the article above talks about this: one karat stones all go into eternity rings, which were invented by debeers due to a massive oversupply of Russian one karat stones. Actually, the book implies that these stones may have been lab stones, as no-one knew where the Russians got so many one karat stones from.)
- matwood 16y agoYou could always check out moissanite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite Someone would have to really study the ring to realize it wasn't diamond. Plus it first came from meteorites which puts it high on the geek scale ;)
- wmf 16y agoFrom 2003, not last year. Here's a 2007 update: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/start.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/start.html
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- WorkerBee 16y agoI think the link is wrong - that article is on the Concorde aircraft.
- paulgerhardt 16y agoIt's on "page 6" of that link. I was confused a bit at first too. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/start.html?pg=6 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/start.html?pg=6
- EEFranklin 16y agoThat's an old article. Gemesis still just makes orange-yellows. Apollo makes white around .5ct. D.NEA has yellows, blue to 1.3ct and white to 1ct.