What’s the deal with lab-grown diamonds? [And should you buy them?]
Lab-grown diamonds are not a new phenomenon, despite what the media may have you believe. Since the 1950’s, both De Beers and General Electric have been manufacturing synthetic diamonds, purely for industrial applications (for example drill bits, cutting saws & polishing wheels). These synthetic diamonds, mostly tiny (2mm in size) bright yellow cubo-octahedral crystals, were [...]