man-made diamonds that fool the experts?

This is amazing – scientists have created a new technique for creating man-made diamonds that even jewelers can’t tell from the real thing!

“At the U.S. Naval Research Lab, a heavily guarded compound just south of the U.S. Capitol, James Butler leads the CVD program. He wears a gold pinky ring that sparkles with one white, one green and one red diamond gemstone, all of them either created or modified in a lab. “The technology is now at a point that we can grow a more perfect diamond than we can find in nature,” he says.”

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