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What synthetic minerals have been developed as a substitutes for diamonds?
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Synthetic diamonds have been created as substitutes for natural diamonds in materials where hardness and cutting ability is strongly desired.
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SYNTHETIC - like Dolly the sheep, a synthetic is real and exactly the same as a natural gem with one exception. It was created in a lab and not naturally occuring and recovered from the earth. At this date, most jewelers even using all the best test cannot tell the difference between man made diamonds and natural diamonds without expensive and costly equipment. A simple pen sized diamond tester can instantly let you know a cubic zirconia is not real. Additionally Cubic zirconia of the same dimensions weigh much more than diamonds. Cubic zirconia can be scratched by a diamond but a diamond cannot be scratched by a cubic zirconia.
If you met the woman who was the first test tube baby born in the 1970's, she is a "synthetic". A blow up doll is a "simulant".
SIMULANT - a substitute that is a completely different substance not like the natural and not like the Synthetic. There was once a puppet on TV called Lamb Chop. It is meant to represent a sheep but it is not real. Cubic Zirconia is a man made gem that can fool many people but is not a diamond.
To answer the questions all diamond synthetics are made of carbon, pure carbon just like a natural diamond.
For simulants the materials they may be made from are varied from glass to moissanite to cubic zirconia.
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Why aren't diamonds made in a laboratory considered minerals?
Minerals are required to be naturally occurring. Synthetic diamonds are not.
Is there an independent lab to grade simulated diamonds that I can contact to grade these?
noAnother AnswerGrading simulated diamonds implies that there are grades. Often gem-stone-like substitutes for diamonds are fabricated from other minerals, or if man-made, composed of some combination of elements.Knowing the composition of the simulated stones may help you value them. But there does not appear to be a standard grading system for non-gem jewels.
What mineral can scratch all the minerals?
Diamonds are proven to scratch all minerals including itself.
What kind of minerals can diamonds be found in?
Diamonds are associated with carbon as it is one of the allotropes of carbon. Answer:Diamonds are often found in Kimberlite
What characteristic do diamonds share with other minerals?
The anser should be corbon
Why aren't diamonds made in a laboratory considered minerals?
Minerals are required to be naturally occurring. Synthetic diamonds are not.
Are synthetic rubie's topaz and diamonds considered minerals?
Not in the truest sense, in that they have not occurred naturally.
What are synthetic diamonds made from?
Diamonds are formed from carbon, including those manufactured by man. The diamond-looking synthetic stone Cubic zirconia --CZ -- is the crystaline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). Other diamond-looking synthetics are formed from other minerals.
What kind of minerals are diamonds made of?
Diamonds are minerals, composed of the element carbon.
What are the substitutes for minerals and where they are extracted?
asbestos is one...
Why are diamonds not considered minerals?
Diamond fits the definition of a mineral in that it is naturally occurring, a solid, composed of an element or combination of elements, and has a crystalline structure. Many minerals contain carbon. Graphite, the mineral, is also pure carbon but with a different crystalline structure.
What are synthetic minerals?
Man made minerals
Why are diamonds minerals?
Diamonds are formed from carbon, which is a mineral.
What minerals compose diamonds?
Diamonds are composed of carbon.
What minerals cut diamonds?
Nothing. Only other diamonds can cut diamonds.
What are the minerals from Africa?
diamonds
What elements and minerals are diamonds made of?
Diamonds are pure carbon.
