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Lab-grown diamonds of various colors grown by the high-pressure-and-temperature technique. A synthetic diamond or laboratory-grown diamond (LGD), also called a lab-grown diamond, [1] laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond, is a diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed diamond, which is ...
The key difference between lab-grown and natural diamonds is their origins: Natural diamonds take billions of years to form, and lab-grown diamonds can be created in a matter of weeks.
“Lab-grown diamonds are created in state-of-the-art laboratories, rather than being mined from the earth,” says Pahlajani. “They undergo the exact same process that carbon does in nature to ...
The first lab-made diamonds can be dated back to the 1950s, [1] and memorial diamonds started to appear in the market in the early 2000s. More than one company has claimed to be the first to provide memorial diamonds, and both Heart In Diamond [2] and LifeGem [3] have claimed to have a patent covering the growing of a "personalized gem diamond".
Apollo Diamond (defunct, assets sold in 2011 to Scio Diamond) [1] ALTR Created Diamonds [2] De Beers (Lightbox) [3] Diamond Foundry [4] Gemesis (now a non-producing reseller called Pure Grown Diamonds) [5] Scio Diamond Technology Corporation [6] (colorless) Tairus [7] WD Lab Grown Diamonds [8]
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Synthetic (lab created) corundum, including ruby and sapphire, is very common and costs much less than the natural stones. Small synthetic diamonds have been manufactured in large quantities as industrial abrasives , although larger gem-quality synthetic diamonds are becoming available in multiple carats.
Scio's so-called "cultured diamonds", or synthetic diamonds, although not of natural origin, are real diamonds, and thus they have the same physical and optical properties as diamonds formed by geological processes.