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0 pointsmerelysounds2y ago0 comments

> It's funny that the traditional diamond industry started to argue that these lab-grown diamonds were too pure and lacked the impurities that natural diamonds have.

I guess they're doing that because humans have a long history of idolising old times and old imperfections. We praise analog photo grain, or analog audio noise. Industries from clothing brands to guitar manufacturers release artificially aged products.

Then again, adding imperfections in "post production" seems to be the status quo.

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g9yuayon2y ago

I would assume so too, except that initially De Beers was arguing that natural diamonds were more pure than the lab-made. When lab-made beat every criteria, 3C and whatnot, created by the diamond cartel, the cartel started to argue for impurity.

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0 pointsmerelysounds2y ago0 comments

> It's funny that the traditional diamond industry started to argue that these lab-grown diamonds were too pure and lacked the impurities that natural diamonds have.

Then again, adding imperfections in "post production" seems to be the status quo.

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g9yuayon2y ago

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