Pues diamantes... si diamantes.
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Man Made Diamonds Cost Less
By Deanna FenéFirst Coast NewsJACKSONVILLE, FL -- If you want to get your Valentine a diamond this year, but it's not in the budget, there's a new option. Cultured diamonds have all the brilliance of a natural stone, but cost a lot less. Gemesis makes what they call cultured diamonds in a lab in Sarasota, Florida. They say their cultured diamonds have the same characteristics as a natural diamond; same hardness, same refractive index, and same brilliance.Instead of being mined from the earth, cultured diamonds were made in a lab. Gemesis cultured diamonds are created under the same conditions as diamonds in the earth. Carlyle and Company at the St. John's Town Center is the first jewelry store in Jacksonville to offer the cultured diamonds. John Rios is the store manager. "What we did was mimic the process of how it was created."The process starts with a tiny diamond seed that is placed in a growth chamber in a lab. The chamber is capable of generating 850,000 pounds per square inch of pressure and 2700 degrees of heat necessary to make one diamond every four days. Rios says, 'It didn't take millions of years to make (diamonds) it took millions of years to come to the surface and to find them."When you put a cultured diamond on a diamond tester it registers as a diamond. Rios says, "If the Gemological Institute of America or any other major industry that grades diamonds were to look at it, they would grade it was a diamond."Every cultured diamond is unique. Right now, you can only get them in yellow and orange. In most settings, the yellow cultured diamond is in the center surrounded by the white mined diamonds.The key is to know when you're buying one and to deal with a knowledgeable jeweler who offers full disclosure about where the diamond came from.
Created: 2/11/2008 10:50:52 PM
Updated: 2/12/2008 3:40:12 PMEdited by Deanna Fene, Anchor
© 2008 First Coast News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, rewritten, or redistributed.
By Deanna FenéFirst Coast NewsJACKSONVILLE, FL -- If you want to get your Valentine a diamond this year, but it's not in the budget, there's a new option. Cultured diamonds have all the brilliance of a natural stone, but cost a lot less. Gemesis makes what they call cultured diamonds in a lab in Sarasota, Florida. They say their cultured diamonds have the same characteristics as a natural diamond; same hardness, same refractive index, and same brilliance.Instead of being mined from the earth, cultured diamonds were made in a lab. Gemesis cultured diamonds are created under the same conditions as diamonds in the earth. Carlyle and Company at the St. John's Town Center is the first jewelry store in Jacksonville to offer the cultured diamonds. John Rios is the store manager. "What we did was mimic the process of how it was created."The process starts with a tiny diamond seed that is placed in a growth chamber in a lab. The chamber is capable of generating 850,000 pounds per square inch of pressure and 2700 degrees of heat necessary to make one diamond every four days. Rios says, 'It didn't take millions of years to make (diamonds) it took millions of years to come to the surface and to find them."When you put a cultured diamond on a diamond tester it registers as a diamond. Rios says, "If the Gemological Institute of America or any other major industry that grades diamonds were to look at it, they would grade it was a diamond."Every cultured diamond is unique. Right now, you can only get them in yellow and orange. In most settings, the yellow cultured diamond is in the center surrounded by the white mined diamonds.The key is to know when you're buying one and to deal with a knowledgeable jeweler who offers full disclosure about where the diamond came from.
Created: 2/11/2008 10:50:52 PM
Updated: 2/12/2008 3:40:12 PMEdited by Deanna Fene, Anchor
© 2008 First Coast News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, rewritten, or redistributed.
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