Diamond Age Coming Soon 404
Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'The many facets of man-made diamonds,' Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) writes that synthetic diamonds are getting bigger and cheaper. An example: for Valentine's Day, you can buy a yellow colored man-made diamond, visibly indistinguishable from a natural one, for $4,000 per carat. This is a 30% discount when compared with a natural diamond. This very long article also says that if synthetic diamond makers are targeting the jewelry market first, these new products will have an impact on many other industries. Not only is it now possible to grow bigger diamonds, you also can choose their color. 'Colored diamonds, which are valuable and very rare, can be created by introducing carefully controlled elemental impurities into the stone,' says C&EN. For instance, nitrogen produces a yellow stone. Infusing boron into the growing diamond produces a blue gem. This overview contains some details, references and photos of men-made diamonds, but read the original article for even more technical explanations if you have the time."
Perhaps... (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks for reminding me... (Score:5, Funny)
huh? (Score:5, Funny)
"Look...I got you this overpriced diamond...and its all nice and yellow"
no dice (Score:5, Funny)
The next girl who fakes an orgasm with me will get one of these. Then we'll see who's a fat jobless loser.
dupe? (Score:3, Funny)
Time to sell! (Score:5, Funny)
I understand it is time to sell my bag of diamonds before they still have some value :)
M.
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Could Diamond Age come a little bit faster,please? (Score:3, Funny)
Talk about timing!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps last week or before would have served us a bit better, eh?
Poster doesn't have a girlfriend! (Score:5, Funny)
Re: If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Thanks for reminding me... (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory Beautiful Girls quote (Score:4, Funny)
Kev: It's a diamond
Tommy: The fuckin' thing's brown.
Paul: It's called champagne; it's a trend
Tommy: Oh right, they were calling it "piss", but they weren't moving any units
Re:Could Diamond Age come a little bit faster,plea (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, this is Slashdot.
Our imaginary girlfriends would be more than happy with a cubic zirconia. ;)
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
colored diamonds (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:no dice (Score:4, Funny)
So, are you telling us that you are a fat, jobless, loser that can't satisfy women, and afterwards buys the unsatisfied woman an impure diamond.
Am I missing something here?
Re:huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Please rate this post as: ./ er
Super wonderful AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA++++
Re:That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)
The Super X-Prize (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Possible regulation? (Score:5, Funny)
Diamonds-Value- Ha! (Score:5, Funny)
Here's something: Literally give your significant other the sun . . . A white dwarf diamond that is!
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Cambridge, and UFSC Brazil have identified in the constellation Centaurus what is likely to be the fate of our own sun. With a rhythmically harmonious core and a 'suface' of hydrogen and helium this carbon-predominant cellestial body is known as BPM 37093. It is the largest diamond ever indentified [harvard.edu] in the wild at Twenty-five hundred miles across and weighing 5 million trillion trillion pounds!". Artistic Representainions and Videos are available here [harvard.edu].
The Catto Diamond
A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.
He asked her about it.
"This is the Catto diamond," she said. "It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse that goes with it."
"Oh - what's the curse?" the man asked.
"Mr. Catto."
A rose by any other name... (Score:3, Funny)
I say enough of this. I'm tired of diamond being the best at everything. Let's all surround diamond after posting, and set it straight. Maybe we can go all Orwell on this holier-than-thou tetrahedral structure, and erase it from history. Now who's the hardest, huh?
Diamond thinks is so tough....
Re:The point of buying a diamond... (Score:3, Funny)
Until then it's cubic zirconia and $3980 worth of food and heating oil for you, my sweet.
KFG
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! Those are fake! (diamonds)
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
Dumping into the ocean, you say? Got some GPS numbers for me?
DeBeers (Score:5, Funny)
Scientists to DeBeers: FUCK YOU!!!
Re:Date of bitter end (Score:1, Funny)
Jesus christ, lay off the booze.
Re:Possible regulation? (Score:2, Funny)
If you live in Chicago, you could call it "DaBears"... although you might get sued by someone else
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
Considering that most people have brown eyes....
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:4, Funny)
Re:no dice (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Could Diamond Age come a little bit faster,plea (Score:2, Funny)
I'dlike to pull a Churchill on her. Tell her you don't have a diamond ring, but you would give her $50 to sleep with you once. "We already know what kind of girl you are, we're just haggling over the price."
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:3, Funny)
The rest of us, who actually want a wife and kids..
Re:That's nothing... (Score:2, Funny)
I won't ask how you know that.... ;-)
Re:Could Diamond Age come a little bit faster,plea (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, hell, may as well go for broke.
Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
Gold mining is not a cartel, and I don't think artificial gold will be made in large quantities any time soon.
Re:$4000 for an artificial diamond?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Talk about timing!!! (Score:2, Funny)
It's the thought that counts? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Some musings on Diamond as a metastable materia (Score:3, Funny)
Oh man, those guys in Iraq were actually trying to make diamonds and not A-bombs, so the explosives were wrapped around graphite instead of uranium. No wonder the WMD search squad didn't find anything. Thanks for the explanation.