The high quality of gems now being created leads the Institution and the FTC to abandon use of the term “synthetic” to describe lab grown diamonds. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
Advancements in CVD technology produced high quality gems in terms of the 4 C’s. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
HTPT gem quality lab-grown diamonds become widely available.. GE grows them in the US. Soviets develop Cubic Zirconia while attempting to grow a diamond. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
The market saw the arrival moissanite and “simulants”, which always failed to compete with the mined diamond in brilliance, color and fire. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
G.E created the first batch of lab-grown industrial diamonds, although they only announced it in February 1955. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
Science fiction writer H. G. Wells described the concept of lab grown diamonds in “The Diamond Maker”. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
Moissan focused on the idea aGer the discovery of small diamonds in a meteorite crater in Arizona. He believed he had discovered a new way to grow diamonds, but he had actually created a new material made of silicon carbide, named MOISSANITE aGer him. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
James Ballantyne and Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan reported early attemps to manufacture diamonds: heating charcoal to temperatures above 3500°F, with iron, inside a crucible furnace followed by rapid cooling nouveauSeptember 16, 2021
Scientists discovered that a diamond is a pure form of carbon, began efforts to manufacture diamonds. nouveauSeptember 16, 2021