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Anon shops for diamonds (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My wife's engagement ring is an emerald, I don't think it was lab grown but it was way cheaper then a diamond and looks easy better then a piece of "glass"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My friend works with lab grown crystals and there re ones like lutetium aluminium garnet doped with cerium (LuAG:Ce) and similar which look awesome

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder if there's anyone interested creating lab diamonds that have imperfections that essentially become indistinguishable from the mined ones. There wouldn't be any money in it, but they could theoretically crash the blood diamond market.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Its already happened, its why big diamond cartels etch symbols into diamonds. They literally can't tell the difference anymore.

    Its not super common for them to do that as its at least unethical and illegal in some places. Plus unless your literally trying to counterfeit, why would you want a flawed diamond?

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