In the last ten years the development of artificially grown diamonds has become more and more popular. From the domain of laboratory research the chemistry research of these compounds moved towards commercialization of diamonds for the use in the industry of jewelery (small diamonds for industrial use have been synthesized for more than fifty years).
With time, companies specialized in production of artificial diamonds have emerged, such as Gemesisa and Apollo Diamond, which produce colored diamonds too, which have a significantly lower price than the one gathered in the nature, known as natural diamonds.
Diamonds are produced in sizes of about one carat (carat is the traditional unit for measuring the size of diamond and is equal to 0.2 grams). The most interesting fact in the story about the progress of the production of artificially produced diamonds, is that researchers of journalism and journalists got involved in this branch of science, in their own peculiar way. They accessed the problem of production of diamonds completely unscientific. They took several artificially grown diamonds and went into the heart of the New York diamond trade center, in the forty seventh street and turning to sell diamonds, by offering them to several experts to tell them the value of diamonds.
One can imagine them as the enigmatic characters in the movies that usually sell jewels, watches and similar precious objects using magnifying eye glass, sometimes a sharp object, etc. In New York’s 47th Street experts evaluated all diamonds that were brought by journalists and every each of them passed as natural diamonds, regarding quailty.
Obviously diamonds made in this way are potentially becoming as precious as the natural ones. There are many interesting properties regarding diamonds. If one would like to know more about them and their properties, it’s a good idea to start from basic tutorials on chemistry.