Scientists have successfully synthesized lonsdaleite, a hexagonal diamond 40% harder than diamond, after 50 years of attempts ...

Over 90% of the world’s diamonds are processed in India, particularly in Surat — a city that employs over a million people in ...

If you have been looking jewellery recently, chances are you’ve encountered these synthetic options. The price difference between these two diamonds is night and ... often containing nitrogen and ...

New gas mixtures and different types of dopants allow synthetic diamonds to grow with pre-specified characteristics. The inclusion of nitrogen or boron during the CVD process enables manufacturers to ...

Synthetic diamonds, like the one shown above ... jewels contain chemical clues about Earth’s earliest history. “The inclusions in them are extremely attractive,” says Thomas Stachel ...

For example, nearly every synthetic diamond that comes in for a report is ... Then it is “definitively natural,” she says. But if a diamond has no inclusions or is type IIa, send it to a lab for ...

The inclusion of Alrosa on the sanctions list follows a decision taken by the European bloc in December to ban the import, purchase or transfer of natural and synthetic diamonds from Russia.

GE later achieved gem-quality synthetic diamonds in 1971 by applying heat and pressure to a graphite seed. These early gem-quality synthetics, while remarkable, were expensive to produce and often ...

We explore the world of synthetic and lab-grown diamonds, which are growing in popularity in response to the demand for sustainable jewels. Search your access to the good life Subscribe KL HK SG TH ...