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Diamonds...that'll shut her up

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rocketman

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And now they'll be dirt cheap! Fuck yeah male ingenuity!
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http://extremetechnology.blogspot.com/2006/02/yes-theyre-real.html
Sunday, February 26, 2006

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Technically speaking, anyone can mine diamonds. But Robert Linares and his son Bryan can GROW them. In a process known as "chemical vapor deposition", the Linareses spray heated carbon gas over diamond chips. Under extreme pressure, the carbon atoms settle on the chips and conform to the structure. Wait a week or two, open the lid, and take out a fistful of diamonds of a size and quality almost impossible to find in nature.

A microwave plasma tool at the Naval Research Lab, used to create diamonds for high-temperature semiconductor experiments.​
Put pure carbon under enough heat and pressure - say, 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit and 50,000 atmospheres - and it will crystallize into the hardest material known. Those were the conditions that first forged diamonds deep in Earth's mantle 3.3 billion years ago. Replicating that environment in a lab isn't easy, but that hasn't kept dreamers from trying. Since the mid-19th century, dozens of these modern alchemists have been injured in accidents and explosions while attempting to manufacture diamonds.

To grow single-crystal diamonds using chemical vapor deposition, you must first divine the exact combination of temperature, gas composition, and pressure - a "sweet spot" that results in the formation of a single crystal. Otherwise, innumerable small diamond crystals will rain down. Hitting on the single-crystal sweet spot is like locating a single grain of sand on the beach. There's only one combination among millions. In 1996, Linares found it.

Last June, he finally received a US patent for the process, which already is producing flawless stones. The price per carat: about $5.

http://www.apollodiamond.com/about.html
 
Never give a woman a diamond unless your going to marry her!
Diamonds are deadly serious. Go with fire opals or pearls.
You'll still impress and it won't get you backed in a corner. [nosmiley]
 
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WTF is he telling people. He could make a shit load of money selling that shit and having people thinking it is real.

Hell who knows if the shit that we buy is real now.

I had a chemistry teacher tell me that any pink diamond is fake, even know they sell it as real.

Didnt Kobe buy his wife a 4million dollar pink diamond after he cheated on here. :slappy:
 
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crazybuckfan40 said:
WTF is he telling people. He could make a shit load of money selling that shit and having people thinking it is real.

Hell who knows if the shit that we buy is real now.

I had a chemistry teacher tell me that any pink diamond is fake, even know they sell it as real.

Didnt Kobe buy his wife a 4million dollar pink diamond after he cheated on here. :slappy:
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Created diamonds are real diamonds. They'll probably just have to label them as "created" as is the case for sapphires and rubies. In all cases, the only difference is that the created onces will have a better color and fewer flaws than most found in nature. Watch - eventually, slightly flawed "natural" diamonds will be the ones that cost more.

Your teacher probably meant that the pink in pink diamonds actually comes from the introduction of foreign minerals while the stone is being developed. They're real diamonds, but the color doesn't come from the diamond material. BTW, have you ever seen a "champagne" diamond? Great marketing move by the jewelery industry a few years ago. Take all the diamonds whose "poor" color made them unsaleable by the usual standards and just slap a pretty name on them... bam, marketable goods.

Glad to see this development. Diamonds are pretty and all, but there are much better ways to spend money.
 
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crazybuckfan40 said:
WTF is he telling people. He could make a shit load of money selling that shit and having people thinking it is real.

Hell who knows if the shit that we buy is real now.

I had a chemistry teacher tell me that any pink diamond is fake, even know they sell it as real.

Didnt Kobe buy his wife a 4million dollar pink diamond after he cheated on here. :slappy:
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don't worry, he will still make a shitload of money. only difference is it will cost him 5 bucks to power a machine rather than the current 6 bucks to work minors to death and ship them to the US :wink:. the price you and i pay however will be unchanged :p. diamonds are so valuable because of how many are released into circulation at any given time. not because they are rare. this guy being able to make em in his basement doesn't change that.
 
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