With lab created diamonds becoming more and more popular these days, many people have questions. If you are thinking about purchasing diamond jewellery, you should definitely consider lab-grown diamonds.
Are Lab Created Diamonds Real?
Lab created diamonds are different from diamond simulants like cubic zirconia, moissanite, or a CZ with a diamond-like carbon coating. Lab diamonds are in fact real diamonds. They have the same exact chemical properties as natural mined diamonds and are 100% carbon. Diamonds are made in a lab through the recreation of the conditions under the earth that leads to the growth of natural diamonds. This includes carbon, heat, and pressure.
Can a Jeweller Determine if a Diamond is Lab Grown?
Natural diamonds and lab-grown diamond rings look the same even to someone with a trained eye. Expensive gemmological equipment is required to determine if a diamond is mined or created in a lab.
Traditional tools like loupes and microscopes are not complex enough to identify the difference between mined diamonds and lab created diamonds. Such tools are designed to determine if a diamond is real or fake, such as moissanite or cubic zirconia.
How Long Does It Take to Create a Diamond in the Lab?
The amount of time it takes to create a diamond in the lab depends greatly on the size of the diamond. A single-carat diamond will only take a week to ten days, while a three-carat diamond can take as long as a month to create. Attempting to speed the process will cause the diamond crystal to fracture.
Are Lab Created Diamonds Perfect and Flawless?
Just as not all natural diamonds are without flaws, the same is true for lab created diamonds. The reason for this is because the exact same process that takes place in nature to create a mined diamond is recreated in a lab. Therefore, lab diamonds have the same clarity and colour as natural diamonds.
