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How to make a synthetic diamond (2009)
- permo-w 3y agodoes anyone know somewhere you can read more about this process? I'm curious how it can be refined
- kikokikokiko 3y agoIf I'm not mistaken a Youtube channel called "Night Hawk in Light" made a series of videos some years ago about creating various types of gems using a microwave, like rubis and diamonds. Amazing channel overall.
- saaspirant 3y agoI thought this article was a prank. It is not? I am curious
- marcosdumay 3y agoThe article is a prank. You won't make a diamond without a sealed chamber filled with a well crafted atmosphere. (Just a question, but does the end-result look anything like a diamond to you?) Also, if you want to try any "dry" recipe in a microwave, put a glass with some water near it. Otherwise you risk damaging something.
- brunoTbear 3y agoHaving recently purchased an engagement ring, I am amazed by how inexpensive synthetic diamonds have become. Back in 2015 I paid for a natural stone. Prices then were nuts. You can get so much more weight, color, and clarity now. I really hope the extraction of natural diamonds becomes a historical shame soon. I do not understand people who want a natural stone. My buddy is marrying a woman who insisted on a natural rock. It’s one of many things wrong with her, and fits the pattern I’ve seen with her to a T.
- quickthrower2 3y agoWhy do people want a diamond at all is a good question to ask (and research). Shame $5k to charity isn’t the convention.
- hyperliner 3y agoNot everybody has $5k to give away to charity, but they have $5k to give to De Beers.
- kikokikokiko 3y agoI don't know if it's just another example of my complete immunity towards advertising and marketing in all of it's forms, but one of the requirements I set early on when I started to think seriously about settling down was "she can't give any value, at all, to useless things like an idiotic ring with a dumb whisperer's rock on it". I found my girl thank God. Not being an american neither having lived in the US at any point in my life, it always amazed me that your society accepted as common knowledge that "you must spend X months of your salary on a dumb whisperer's rock to prove to your woman that you value her. The DeBeers corporation sure did a good job on you guys.
- hfuyf65 3y agoWhile we are likely aligned with regards to advertising, I would like you to consider a counter argument. The rock is a rock, but its exaorbitant price serves as a threshold for potential mate selection. We may consider it crass, but animal kingdom is full of examples of females considering males based on specific criteria.
- kikokikokiko 3y agoYes, it's perfectly expected for females (on average) to give a lot of value to "useless" demonstrations of fitness when selecting a mate. The peacock exists. But it's also perfectly expected for a male, if he's aware of these innate traits, when selecting a female partner, if he's looking for more important things other than looks and physical attractiveness, to give more "points" to different traits. In my case, intelligence was factor number 1. If she reaaally needs that stupid ring, she's out. In the end I got myself a PhD girlfriend, that is way smarter than me, and with whom I can have conversations way into my 80s. Mission accomplished. Thank you DeBeers for creating a standardized test to put potential wives through.
- jan_Sate 3y agoAt first I thought that the first pic in the article was the diamond that the author synthesized.
- anfractuosity 3y agoThere's a rather interesting film I watched called 'Nothing Lasts Forever (2022)', which talks about the two types of manufactured diamonds - high pressure high temperature and CVD diamonds - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16317380/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16317380/. It talks a bit about natural and manufactured diamonds being mixed together. It sounds like it's pretty difficult to tell the difference between natural and HPHT manufactured diamond, without spectrometers etc. I found this re. CVD diamonds though "You can identify CVD diamonds fairly simply. They have a unique strain pattern that doesn’t resemble that of natural diamonds and strong red fluorescence. In addition, they lack the typical "Cape Line" at 415 nm on their absorption spectrum. Instead, they present a strong line at 737 nm." - https://www.gemsociety.org/article/identification-of-synthetic-diamonds/ https://www.gemsociety.org/article/identification-of-synthet... I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsMIG04vHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsMIG04vHA (a short clip from Bang Goes the Theory) shows CVD, using acetylene. And they verify with a raman spectrometer.
- Razengan 3y ago“We have diamond at home:”
- saaspirant 3y agoI almost fell to this prank
- fastneutron 3y agoElement Six [1] makes all sorts of synthetic diamonds for industrial and analytical applications. Some are actually quite cheap, although there’s some irony perhaps in that they’re a DeBeers subsidiary. We use these diamonds in my lab for experiments with nitrogen vacancy centers, which are an interesting platform for solid state qubits. 1. https://e6cvd.com/ https://e6cvd.com/
- unreal37 3y agoGoing to need proof. Others who've tried this have not been able to reproduce the result.
- neolithicum 3y agoThe linked article appears to be an April Fools joke https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Prank-the-Instructables-Community https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Prank-the-Instructab...
- csours 3y agoHa. This one is a joke, but home scientists (or scientists at home) are doing some pretty amazing things on YouTube these days.
- Simon_O_Rourke 3y agoI'm all for synthetic, cheaply produced diamonds replacing all others in these scam markets. For example, the re-sale loss often encountered from selling on those old diamonds you find lying around the house is often a 25% to 50% haircut [1]. It's not some old rusty Nissan for goodness sake, it's precisely the same thing you bought previously, with none of its apparent purpose diminished in any way. [1] - https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/why-does-a-diamond-have-no-resale-value/ https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/why-does-a-diamond-have-no-...
- codingdave 3y agoYou have the question backwards - don't ask why diamonds don't have resale value... rather, ask why people think they are valuable in the first place? I'd think at this point it is common knowledge that they are not rare, and it is all marketing and market manipulation that keeps people spending a lot on them.
- injeolmi_love 3y agoWhen buying diamonds, be aware that most consumer name brand frqnchises will scam you. To protect yourself, you need to things: (1) a price sheet like from Rapaport and (2) an understanding of this diamond grading works. The most common craziness I saw while diamond shopping in USA was low quality diamonds but with large carat counts being sold at huge markups. Another thing to look out for is cheaper certifications; some certifications are much stricter on grades than others. GIA is reliable, look for it. You also need to read the etching of the diamonds cert number on the physical diamond yourself; in one instance a friend had his diamond swapped by the dealer, and proved it thru the physical etching.
- Yenrabbit 3y agoThis April Fools joke got me back in 2013, and my family have never let me forget it! I should have checked the article date... Thankfully our microwave started working again once it cooled off and all that was hurt was my pride.
- saaspirant 3y agoYeah I don't understand people are thinking this serious and even discussing about it on front page. Am I being r/whoosh-ed?
- sbbq 3y ago*At Home
- m3kw9 3y agoWho’s gonna take a piece of poop looking thing and actually bring it to verify it and grade it