Will any carbon based molecules work for producing fabricated diamonds?

Answer 1

Yep. It's been done and the diamond companies like De Beers have taken measures to ensure that their diamonds are authentic and natural by engraving them with their signature. Diamonds can now be manufatured: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond_pr.html

Answer 2

Fabricated Diamonds

Answer 3

Probably not many carbon-based molecules can be used to make artificial (but real) diamonds in the lab. Methane (CH4) represents the world's smallest "diamonds that can be produce and methane is a gas. Methane consist of one carbon atom (pure carbon?) surrounded by four hydrogen atoms. If you cleave a diamond in an atmosphere of pure hydrogen, the hydrogen will coat and bond with the freshly exposed diamond surface just like hydrogen bonds to make methane. It is then possible to use vapor deposition of pure carbon atoms to replace the hydrogen and grow the diamond. If diamonds are a girl's best friend, perhaps methane is her favorite gas?

Answer 4

There have been some hypothetical processes involving the solution formation of diamonds, i.e.: precipitation of high-quality diamonds from a solution that is capable of dissolving graphite and other allotropes of carbon while allowing diamond to deposit. After all, it has been established for over a decade that diamonds can be grown from methane via chemical vapor deposition (CVD, reference 1).

It is simply a matter of expense and the quantity, quality, and type of diamond one wishes to produce; it seems likely that a solution-based growth may be achievable some day, but whether the benefits will outweigh the expense remains to be seen. Until then, gaseous deposition will have to do, in conjunction with squeezing machines.

Answer 5

Diamond is by definition made of carbon. So you need actually atomic carbon, plus LOTS of pressure, to make diamonds. So, no, you cannot use some other carbon based molecule unless you extract the carbon from it first.

Answer 6

Yes, carbon can be synthesized to become diamonds they are called the Russian Diamond or Cubic Zirconia. Unfortunately, even with the recent advancement of technology, they were still unable to figure out how to get these diamond crystals to become bigger. i think the biggest they made was sill less than a karat.

Answer 7

No . Time and pressure are needed for diamonds

Answer 8

why yes