The first of kinds of synthetic diamonds were created in 1954 by the General Electric company. A lab-grown diamond essentially is a stone that possesses exemplary qualities of the natural type of diamond such as refractive index, durability and hardness.
The only difference between natural and artificial diamonds is that the latter is lab-grown. A synthetic diamond however should not be mistaken for one of the stimulant diamonds such as moissanite diamonds, glass or even cubic zirconia.
Although the modern technology on these type of industry actually started in 1954, no items were really made available in the market until the year 1990. This is because the General Electric company took many years of experiments before they are able to create a synthetic diamond that is akin to the qualities and characteristics of the natural diamonds. In the end, when GE was able to do it, it was found out that the production of the synthetic diamonds is more expensive than if man would mine and cut the natural type of diamonds.
Finally, Gemesis Corporation a small diamond company was able to figure out a method that involved production of synthetic diamonds having the same quality as that of natural ones, at a much less expensive cost. Now Gemesis is the main producer of synthetic white diamonds as well as colored diamonds.
These types of Gemesis diamonds are being sold for 1/3 the price of natural diamond. However, right now there is a shortage for these synthetic jewelries. Can you believe that synthetic diamonds became much rarer than the natural ones?
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