How is synthetic diamond produced and how expensive is it?

Answer 1

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 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 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.

Despite being occasionally characterized as 'fake', synthetic diamond is molecularly identical to the carbon allotrope defined as diamond when referring to naturally occurring diamond. As such, it shares the same material properties and is potentially of an even higher quality than its natural counterpart.

Answer 2

Man made diamonds can now be made in such a quality that they have to be artificially marked to be distinguishable from natural stones so that jewelers can detect them without special laboratory techniques. The largest synthetic diamond produced seems to have been 34 carat, certainly not small compared to a typical natural stone. I doubt there was a fundamental limit to the size. It was likely just limited by the time and money and equipment available for this experiment. If your questions are going anywhere, they are going towards ignorance. There is plenty of material on the internet. Look it up.

Answer 3

A synthetic diamond is created by compressing carbon at 58,000 atmospheres and 1,500 Celsius, they are slightly less expensive than "real" diamonds. and most are "industrial grade" meaning they are not clear or anything and they are used as abrasives

Answer 4

By imitating the natural processes. Carbon subjected to intense pressure and temperature turns to diamond; man simply copies what nature does........it is a fairly involved and expensive procedure.

Answer 5

Superman takes a peice of coal, squeezes it real hard and makes a diamond. If you know superman, it's free.

Answer 6

I use polished quartz retrieved from the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. I use them for various arts and crafts that I do and necklaces. All of them sold out!