Synthetic Diamonds

The first synthetic diamonds were produced by General Electric in 1954, but the production took off only in the 1990s when a small company by the name of Gemesis Corporation figured out a way to produce synthetic diamonds that were of the same quality as natural diamonds, at a cheaper price. Today, Gemesis produces synthetic white diamonds, and colored diamonds as welland cost much less than natural diamonds.

Facts about quartz

In ancient Egypt, glazed quartz served as a substitute when no high quality examples of Turquoise could be found. The Greeks had originally named quartz, krystallos, the word for ice, but this soon came to mean any crystal.

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