The Distinction Between Synthetic Diamond and Natural Diamond

At present, synthetic diamonds on the market have no any differences with natural diamond in appearance. Because of different generation environment, the molecular structure of synthetic diamond is not completely octahedral structure of natural diamond, but a complex structure, which can produce phosphorescence. With the mature production technology and low cost of synthetic diamond, all sorts of colors of diamonds have been produced and sold on the jewelry market.

Synthetic diamonds are also great quality and difficult to distinguish with natural diamond just from the appearance, but there are still some ways. Diamond dealers can use a simple method to confirm the diamonds whether they were growing up in laboratory. They use powerful magnets because there are residues of metal crystallization left in training process inside synthetic diamond , and powerful magnets can suck up the diamonds.

Under high temperature and high pressure environment of 2300 ℃ and 150000 to 180000 atmospheres, to put a small natural diamond as a seed in the center, surrounded by high temperature metal liquid, the upper layer is graphite, and the carbon in graphite will go from the metal atoms to the diamond to form new diamond under this condition. The Russian team stopped the synthetic diamond research at the end of the cold war because of funding problems, and started to study again later with the jeweler's capital injection.

Recently, scientists from Russia have developed synthetic diamond around 3 mm in diameter which is in complete accord with crystal structure of natural diamond. We believe that with the deepening of the research, we can produce synthetic diamond like natural diamond in the near future.

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