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Diamonds of the future
The boom in lab-grown diamonds has been growing in recent years, and many are wondering what these diamonds are. Lab-grown diamonds are real diamonds, 100% identical to diamonds mined from the earth in every way, except they are grown in a lab. They have the same chemical, physical, and optical properties as mined diamonds and exhibit the same fire, scintillation, and flash. In this short article, we will explain in
broad strokes everything related to this type of diamond and why they have become so popular, mainly among the groups of the younger generations.
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Blood diamond vs. Eco-friendly
Lab-grown diamonds are obtained through a controlled, highly technological process. Unlike simulated diamonds, lab-grown diamonds are made from the same material as naturally formed mined diamonds (pure crystallized carbon) and share identical chemical and physical properties (composition, hardness, and refractive index). Lab diamonds are grown using alternative energy methods that are eco-friendly and free of pollution
and environmental damage. This makes the new generations, who are more oriented and concerned about the care of our planet, make their moral-ecological choice in favor of acquiring these diamonds.
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Cutting and shapes
Lab-grown diamonds are treated and cut just like mined diamonds. First, the rough diamond is processed, then the main shape of the future diamond is measured, calculated, and cut. Ultimately, the facets are polished step by step to give the final appearance of a very bright diamond. Like mined diamonds, lab-grown diamonds can be cut into every possible shape.
This allows that after cutting these two types of diamonds, and their visual appearance is 100% identical.
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Jewelry and certification
Once set in jewelry, lab-grown diamonds become impossible to differentiate and identify from mined diamonds. Neither a jeweler nor a professional gemologist could define it as a lab-grown diamond and even use traditional instruments to detect mining diamonds since these diamonds are not fake but are 100% real. These diamonds have a much more affordable
price than diamonds extracted from nature since their production process is much cheaper. With them, they can be made high-quality luxury jewelry at very competitive prices. That is where their growing demand and popularity come from. As a result of the integrity of these diamonds, the large certification companies, leaders in the world market in issuing certificates for natural stones, have decided to provide their certification services for lab-grown diamonds. Today this is considered one of the essential solutions brought to the jewelry industry not only because these large laboratories are the only ones with the vital instruments and procedures to detect whether these diamonds are from mining. But because their decision to certify them is an act of irreversible acceptance that lab-grown diamonds have real value in the jewelry market. Which has created a popular segment called LGD Jewelry.
