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Calling them "lab-grown" is part of the propaganda against them. Like they're alive or there's some weird chemicals involved. It's not silly stories when evil
by ourmandave 1y ago
Calling them "lab-grown" is part of the propaganda against them.
Like they're alive or there's some weird chemicals involved.
It's not silly stories when evil corporations with deep pockets are outright lying, like ads with doctors smoking.
- owenversteeg 1y agoAgain, I'm all for lab grown diamonds for both consumer and industrial use. I think "lab-grown" is a pretty neutral term, and it is also scientifically accurate in the case of CVD and other diamonds where the process really is "growing" the diamonds. There are certainly other terms for them that sound more derogatory such as "synthetic" or "artificial" diamond.
- somebodythere 1y agoMaybe it's my engineer-brain talking, but "lab-grown" actually biases me towards the diamonds. Feels precise and futuristic.
- XorNot 1y agoMy wife wanted a sapphire and we met during Ph D research. It's straight up not possible to pay more then like, a dollar for a synthetic sapphire so that's what's in her ring.
- minetest2048 1y agoI like my scintillator crystals.. they're purpose built to be very fluorescent
- AngryData 1y agoIf you wanted you could even diy your own sapphires and rubies. It isn't a complicated process, but im sure its finicky to get everything perfect.
- sgt101 1y agowhere do you buy them at that price?
- ryao 1y agoI thought the process used to grow them in a lab was somewhat different than the process used in nature. Labs use Chemical Vapor Deposition while nature uses high pressure and high temperature. The lab grows the diamond crystal while nature squeezes a lump of carbon into one.
- fellowmartian 1y agoJewelry diamonds are made in a press.
- TrainedMonkey 1y agoSynthetic diamonds definitely need a marketing glow up. Current names are man-made, lab grown, and synthetic diamonds. Instead we could lean into how cool the HPHT and CVD processes are and have - giga forged diamonds (gigapascal pressure of HPHT), plasma coalesced diamonds (CVD process), or even human forged diamonds (highlighting technological triumph required to achieve these).
- taneq 1y agoCall them vegan diamonds. :D
- stephenitis 1y agoThis would sell. Vegan leather lol
- inkyoto 1y agoVegan leather made out of fungi has been a thing for a while. Next stop is the self-repairing vegan leather also made of the mycelium: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repair-mycelium https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repa...
- dyauspitr 1y agoI think they should just call them natural diamonds because they’re indistinguishable from any other diamond.
- Obscurity4340 1y agoShould just call them diamonds, deBeers only benefit when they're allowed to frame the discussion in such a way anyone cares enough to discriminate. You just know they want to get the receiving partner on their side of "I'm worth the waste of money for a "real" diamond"
- amelius 1y agoperfect lattice diamonds
- BeetleB 1y ago> Calling them "lab-grown" is part of the propaganda against them. Indeed: Even the article perpetuates this: "Whereas a two-carat real diamond engagement ring might cost $35,000, Oymakas says a two-carat lab-grown diamond with the same clarity and colour could only be about $3,500." Sorry - they're both real diamonds.
- m463 1y agoWell it is common terminology to say "grow crystals".
- cantor_S_drug 1y agoLab-grown meat is not true meat. It doesn't matter people would be willing to put a lab-grown organ inside their body if saves life.