It’s my understanding that synthetic diamonds can be made completely flawless, but that it looks so unnatural and “fake” compared to real diamonds, they purposely include inclusions and other minor flaws. Still, if these synthetic diamonds are the same price as natural ones, what is the point?
Watchmakers use synthetic rubies almost exclusively in movements.
Synthetic rubies are cheap. You can buy a 1/3" diameter one for $65
Check valves in HPLC pumps
I couldn’t help but be reminded of those surgically-augmented individuals who bristle at being described as having “fake boobs.”
As correct as you are in pointing out the technical inaccuracy of the term, FWIW, for the average person, “not found in nature” = “fake.”
Except “fake” means “not real”. A fake diamond might look like a diamond, but it isn’t a diamond. Therefore, synthetic diamonds aren’t fake diamonds, they are real diamonds. The comparison to fake boobs is inapt, because fake boobs are constructed of bags filled with saline or silicone rather than engorged fat cells.
If we decide that every work of man is “fake”, then your cellphone is a fake cellphone.
I don’t think the first part is true, but I’m not doubting the second part.
I don’t think this is true.
The main problem with trying to make synthetic diamonds, so far, is that you can’t seem to grow them really large–say 1 ct. or bigger, AND make them white at the same time. They tend to grow a bit off color(yellow).
Maybe Anaamika was referring to Kimberly Process Certification
I found a 2007 AI article saying that the Kimberly Process is not 100% effective.
You’re completely ignoring the point of my post, which was that to the layperson fake, artificial and synthetic are synonyms, regardless of how pedantically we may point out their fine distinctions.
Yes, but thankfully most languages weed out that kind of ludicrous redundancy. Manmade items are inherently artificial/synthetic/fake.
Not to mention the sapphire push rods. How many hours have I spent rebuilding pumps fitted with synthetic gem stone material…
So tires made with artifical rubber are “fake” tires?
Is synthetic motor oil fake motor oil? No, it’s real motor oil that can really be used to lubricate a motor. Fake motor oil implies that although it looks like motor oil it really isn’t motor oil and if you tried to use it like motor oil it would fail.
A fake diamond is something that looks like a diamond but isn’t. A cubic zirconia is a fake diamond. A manmade diamond isn’t fake. It’s really a diamond.
Yeah, and every new lab tech expects to see a giant blue gem when they open the pump up.
Dude, will you explain to me what part of
is giving you a problem? I’ve even added emphasis this time. Your argument is not with me, Lemur866, so let it rest. Your argument is with common usage.
Chemical Vapor Deposition does it. I don’t know how big the giamonds can get, but they are definitely clear. The previously mentioned Apollo Diamonds makes them.
In 2004 Debeers pleaded guilty and paid a 10 million dollar fine to settle a charge that Debeers colluded with G.E. to fix the price of industrial diamonds. Yep, no evidence at all.
I read that colorless diamonds are much harder to make than pink/yellow/blue diamonds. I see that now you can by synthetic colorless ones, but at first it was only colored ones.
For the record, pure sapphire is colorless, and depending on impurities, can be any color except red. And the only reason a sapphire can’t be red is that if it is, it’s called a ruby instead. I’m not sure why sapphire is particularly associated with blue… Maybe that’s the most common color?
Are emeralds also chemically the same as rubies and sapphires, but green instead of red or blue? Or are emeralds a different mineral entirely?