Synthetic diamond is diamond produced through chemical or physical processes in a factory. Like naturally occurring diamond it is composed of a three-dimensional carbon crystal. Due to its extreme physical properties, synthetic diamond is used...
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2006-09-04 08:44:00
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Synthetic diamond
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A colourless synthetic diamond produced via chemical vapour depositionSynthetic diamond is diamond produced through chemical or physical processes in a factory. Like naturally occurring diamond it is composed of a three-dimensional carbon crystal. Due to its extreme physical properties, synthetic diamond is used in many industrial applications, and has the potential to become a serious disruptive technology in many new application areas such as electronics and medicine. Synthetic diamond is also called industrial diamond, manufactured diamond, artificial diamond or cultured diamond. Synthetic diamond is not the same as Diamond-like Carbon, DLC, which is amorphous hard carbon, or diamond imitation, which can be made of other materials such as cubic zirconia or silicon carbide.
Much more in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond
(1 History
2 Manufacturing technologies
2.1 High pressure, high temperature, HPHT
2.2 Chemical Vapor Deposition, CVD
3 Synthetic diamond types
3.1 HPHT diamond grit
3.2 HPHT polycrystalline compact diamond, PCD
3.3 HPHT large single crystal diamond
3.4 CVD polycrystalline diamond
3.5 CVD single crystal diamond
4 Applications
5 Synthetic gems
6 See also
7 Notes
8 External links
9 Further reading )
2006-09-04 15:41:57
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answered by roshpi 3
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Hi. All diamonds are made by subjecting carbon to high heat and pressure. This can happen inside the earth or in a lab. GE made the first ones, so start there.
2006-09-04 16:16:55
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answered by Cirric 7
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