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Now we just need artificial diamonds that are flawed enough to be indistinguishable from real diamonds.
by batch12 2y ago
Now we just need artificial diamonds that are flawed enough to be indistinguishable from real diamonds.
- Joker_vD 2y agoThere is a whole sub-industry of putting fake mosquitoes into fake amber.
- sdenton4 2y agoAs long as the mosquitos contain real dinosaur blood, it's all good.
- schmidtleonard 2y ago"We spared no expense!"
- pfdietz 2y agoFrom chickens, right?
- red1reaper 2y agoChickens are indeed dinosaurs by all means, so sure, from chickens.
- A_D_E_P_T 2y agoThey already do this with emeralds -- fake inclusions and flaws to make them look more like natural stones. If a natural emerald and a good synthetic emerald are distinguishable, it's often only because the synthetic one still looks too much better -- its color and overall clarity are still a little bit too good.
- vlachen 2y agoJust like the "distressed wood" trend caused a booming business of making products that all have the exact same "distressed" pattern. History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
- iteratethis 2y agoI know somebody that works in a wooden floor business. They take perfect new wood and move it through a cylinder that drops pebbles on it. They sell it for 2-3 times the price of undamaged wood.