Lab Grown/Synthetic Diamonds
Lab Grown/synthetic diamonds are created in a laboratory or factory rather than occurring in nature and mined from the earth. Some synthetic diamond laboratories use advanced technology to mimic the conditions that natural diamonds undergo when they form beneath the earth’s crust. This origin story is the main factor that sets synthetic diamonds apart from natural ones, since synthetic diamonds have essentially all of the same chemical, optical and physical properties and crystal structure as natural diamonds. Lab-grown diamonds can look exactly the same as natural diamonds to the unaided eye. Their identity can usually only be determined by gemological laboratories using specialised instruments. These instruments detect minor differences in trace elements and crystal growth to determine whether a diamond is synthetic or natural. The Synthetic Diamond below is on the left whereas the natural diamond is on the right.
