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Super flawless diamonds now made by machines
Worldnetdaily ^
| 08/18/03
| Staff Writer
Posted on 08/18/2003 9:12:19 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: balrog666
How is a star sports figure to atone for his transgressions when he can't buy a $4 million stone for his spouse because all diamonds now cost $1 a carat?
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:40:23 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Sicon
So, I wonder what will replace the diamond as the ultimate token of devotion? Sheetrock (sorry, inside joke). :)
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:40:38 AM PDT
by
najida
(What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
To: Sicon
...token of devotion?
Somehow that sounds oximoronic to me.
<.who you callin' a moron!
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:41:30 AM PDT
by
norraad
To: Sicon
So, I wonder what will replace the diamond as the ultimate token of devotion?A house?
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:41:31 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: balrog666
What an assinine statement. Diamonds are diamonds; I'll take cheap flawless ones over expensive flawed ones any day of the week. But unless 2 or 3 child soldiers die, how will your wife know that you truly love her?
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:41:39 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: RightWhale
Of course you are right, and flawless diamonds are supposed to be manufactured with something that makes them fluoresce slightly so they can be quickly detected. There is nothing illegal about not doing so, and there are apparently more ways coming on line to manufacture them. De Beers want it to be illegal tho...
My daughter has a 100+ carat clunker left over from a drill manufacturing step where it came out 3/10,000" off spec, but it isn't clear.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:41:39 AM PDT
by
Sundog
(Cheers.)
To: etcetera
You must have read "Blood Diamonds."
It will be interesting to see how this pans out ... of course, "flawless" is not the biggest thing in how a diamond looks. A diamond with inclusions that's at the top of the color scale will look nicer than a "flawless" one of a lesser color.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:41:54 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Out of touch with trends since 1966.)
To: bedolido
This sudden arrival of mass-produced gems threatens to alter the public's perception of diamonds and to transform the $7 billion industry. Diamonds: aluminum for the 21st Century?
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:43:04 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: bedolido
Kobe Bryant must be very saddened by this information.
To: mewzilla
Wonder how these dealies compare with moissanite? They blow moissanite away. They are REAL flawless diamonds. I sent an email out to that company as a curiousity and they are making yellow, flawless diamonds. They will also be making blue ones in the future.
Text of the email I got back from them.
Thank you for your interest in our beautiful canary yellow cultured diamonds. We have not yet rolled out our retailer network. We plan on being in 6 to 8 locations by this holiday season. Until we establish our network of resellers, we are selling direct and through our Internet partners. You might contact your local jeweler and request that they contact our sale department. If you would like to look at some stones on-line, please visit our web site www.gemesis.com or visit Takara at www.takaradiamond.com. Although we do not sell directly through our site, you can call us or e-mail us with specific information regarding what size, color and cut you are interested in and we can help you choose your cultured diamond.
We currently have most cuts in size range between 0.2 and 1.5 carats. Our prices range from $1750 per carat for smaller stones up to $3250 per carat for VS quality fancy yellow diamonds over one carat. We do have some good discounts on some of our stones as this is our initial introduction to the market. Our larger sizes are moving fast due to the tremendous amount of interest that the recent publicity has generated for us, so please let us know what type of stone you are interested in. Again, I appreciate your interest in Gemesis Cultured Diamonds. Please call us at 941 907-9889 if we can answer any questions for you.
Best regards,
B. Davidson
Product Director
The Gemensis Corporation
Hope it helps drive DeBeers into the ground.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:43:28 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: AdamSelene235
...oooh, 'dat a gut'one!
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:43:40 AM PDT
by
norraad
To: dfwgator
So, I wonder what will replace the diamond as the ultimate token of devotion?Fidelity?
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:43:51 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(I'm so old-fashioned.)
To: Tax-chick
Shouldn't it be possible to make diamonds with just about any color desired? That would be cool, a diamond rainbow.
To: COUNTrecount
Stupid is as stupid does.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:44:45 AM PDT
by
norraad
To: bedolido
If you want facts, not fantasy, check out this link to the top jewelry/diamond publication in the U.S.:
http://www.jckgroup.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA317139&industry=Gemstones+and+Pearls&industryid=704&webzine=jck&publication=jck
This is the third thread on this subject I'm aware of, by the way.
To: NorthGA
If they get the process's cost down low enough, and can produce large diamonds in pre-determined shapes, diamond parts could replace steel parts in certain applications requiring high-hardness.
Imagine having a diamond chef's knife whose edge was atomicly-sharp, and would never need honing
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:46:41 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer === needs a job at the moment)
To: Sloth
The actual "Wired" article fails to mention "evolutionists." This is a re-write by WorldNetDaily. Perhaps the figure that all scientists are evolutionists. Or perhaps they are just share the general scientific ignorance that the rest of journalism exhibits.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:47:55 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: bedolido
OK already yet.
I want a cobalt blue one as a free sample.
Have never liked plain diamonds that much.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:49:31 AM PDT
by
Quix
(DEFEAT her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de MarxNOW)
To: etcetera
As long as diamonds retain their value, there will be a black market for it. And that means suffering and death in Africa.The business fuels organized crime around the world. The diamond dealer busted in NYC last week for financing the sale of shoulder held missiles to take down U.S. aircraft is just one very small example.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:49:36 AM PDT
by
DPB101
To: mewzilla
So, I wonder what will replace the diamond as the ultimate token of devotion? Fidelity?
Household help!
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:49:41 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Out of touch with trends since 1966.)
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