Diamonds are forever — but their natural taciturnity are n’t . Not only are diamond mines around the earth dry up , but the value-system skirt the victimization of both imagination and human labor has long been called into question .
De Beers , the macrocosm ’s largest diamond supplier , has another idea . The company latterly foretell it will start selling " lab - grown diamonds " through a fresh recording label called Lightbox , according toThe Hustle . De Beers is n’t the first company to make its own diamonds , but it does represent a major shift within the industry .
Synthetic gems cost 90 percent less than the genuine stack and they ’re touted as an honourable choice to constitutive rhomb ( even though De Beers does n’t plan on shutting its minelaying mathematical process down anytime soon , and has beenresistantto hold the home base - grown approach ) . The market for real rhombus has taken a hit in recent geezerhood , and by some estimates , man - made rocks will become more popular than mined diamondsby 2020 .
In late years , other diamond - growing companies , like the California - based ( and direct De Beers rival)Diamond Foundry , have found high - profile investors in people like Leonardo DiCaprio and Twitter co - founder Evan Williams .
The diamonds are grown through a process call chemical substance vaporization deposition ( CVD ) , which " regard pumping gases into a low - pressure vacuum,“The Guardianexplains . The reaction create layers of carbon that come together to form a stone , and the process is used to produce everything from sunglasses to electronics to potato Saratoga chip bags , agree to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) .
While De Beers still asserts that natural diamonds are superscript to synthetic ones , the two are closely identical to the untrained eye . " essentially there is no deviation , " Russell Hemley , of the Carnegie Institution ’s Geophysical Laboratory , toldLiveScience . " Both have the same crystal social structure . However , natural diamonds generally have many more defects . "
Check out the video below to see how diamond from the lab are made .
[ h / tThe Hustle ]
