What Is The Real Difference Between Lab Grown Diamond and Natural Diamond

A diamond is formed when a carbon particle crystallises under extreme heat and pressure.

For many years, we lived with the idea that the brilliance of a diamond shall forever remain rare due to its availability being restricted to deep in the earth from wherein it needed to be mined. A process which took billions of years. But this time period applied to only natural diamonds.

While lab grown diamonds are produced under the same process of allowing carbon atoms to bond and crystallise under extreme heat and pressure, it uses technology to replicate a process present in nature. This gives manufacturers and jewelry designers access to diamonds that could be produced within a few months. It set off customers in the direction of making diamond jewelry purchase which sparkles equally brilliantly as jewelry made from natural diamonds but with lesser negative impact on the environment and is largely conflict free.

Lab grown diamonds changed certain important aspects of the diamond industry. The time taken for a natural diamond to be produced, the process of its mining and how many diamonds could actually be brought to the surface had made the conversation around the rarity of a diamond become its selling point over the brilliance of what a diamond represents. This allowed natural diamonds to be sold at exorbitant rates. The contribution of modern science in creating lab grown diamonds made them more affordable. This came without compromising on the quality of the stone, since lab grown diamonds are produced under much more controlled conditions, more care could be taken to ensure highest grades even in terms of the 4C’s.