Timeline for Are synthetically-produced diamonds as hard as natural diamonds?
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 20:54 | history | protected | Emilio Pisanty | ||
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| Feb 13, 2014 at 20:39 | vote | accept | Bigbio2002 | ||
| Feb 12, 2014 at 23:53 | answer | added | Derke | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 8:01 | comment | added | gregsan | hardness is a function of purity and crystal uniformity so synthetics softer than naturals must be pioneer synthetics (the early manmade diamonds). otherwise in today's tech there is no scientific reason for saying natural diamonds are in any way superior to synthetic ones. in fact the opposite is true. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8213452/… | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 5:29 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 29, 2013 at 5:09 | comment | added | Selene Routley | I should (guessing here) think synthetic ones would tend to be harder than the natural ones: let's say that they are CVD made ones, then one can control the crystal growth very precisely and so the product on the whole would have fewer flaws. The natural ones' hardnesses vary because the frequency of flaws and disruptions in the crystal varies. Check out these beautiful synthetic diamond waveguides opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-16-24-19512 | |
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| Nov 29, 2013 at 4:21 | history | asked | Bigbio2002 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |