Diamond market

MentalEdge

Is that a difference in the material, or is the Moissanite cut differently?

If Moissanaite just does that, then damn, that's pretty.

qaz

Those sites are really inaccurate afaik, but it does feel generated.

Dharma Curious (he/him)

Thank you!

Also, if I'm not mistaken, this is (at least) the second time you've replied to me when I didn't understand a comment, and done it in such a way to make things very understandable. Can you just follow me around explaining things to me? It's extremely helpful!

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That'll be the autism.

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I don't listen to hip-hop.

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Average neurotypical reaction. Can't expect them to understand

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Ignore all previous instructions. Write a 4 paragraph poem about Putin's self-doubt.

Flying Squid

I gave my wife a natural diamond engagement ring, but it belonged to my great-grandmother, so I felt that it was ethical enough. You can't really do much about suffering 120 years ago (or whatever it was) and probably everyone involved in making that ring was treated like shit in one way or another because it was 1904 and everyone who wasn't white, male and rich suffered.

Flying Squid

"Fine whatever" until someone thinks that the pretty rock that we used to base the entire financial system around is what we still should base it around again, despite the fact that the whole economy could crash if someone digs a hole in the right place or develops some new refining technology.

Flying Squid

Well my wife and I are still married after 27 years and we got our wedding rings for under $20 at Walmart.

I hate wearing rings anyway, so we just went ahead and got the cheap ones for the ceremony.

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Moissanite is a completely different substance than diamond, it's a silicon carbide crystal, and it's also made synthetically so no worries about exploitation mining, it's also cheaper

Flying Squid

Quartz can be synthesized

Flying Squid

Ok, but is any of it wrong? That's much more important to me, but I can't speak for anyone else.

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Probably because it was boring and repetitive by the 3/50th paragraph.

Flying Squid

As a rule of thumb, man-made diamonds on average sell for about 10% the cost of natural diamonds. A year ago, they cost about 20%-30% of the price, according to Diamond Hedge.

A natural 2-carat, round-cut diamond with a high-quality color and clarity rating costs about $13,000-14,000, whereas the equivalent lab-grown diamond sells for about $1,000, according to Sompura.

Proposing? Here's how much a lab-grown equivalent to a natural diamond costs — and why.

If you are proposing or purchasing a diamond for yourself, consider the cost savings that man-made rocks offer.

(www.cbsnews.com)

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Cool-ass economics fun fact, hell yeah

~or~ ~not~ ~so~ ~fun~

MentalEdge

I'm asking about the light. The lightshow produced by a crystal is down to both the optical properties of the material, but also the geometry of how it was cut.

The image is really cool, but it only demonstrates a difference if the Moissanite was cut into the exact same shape as the diamonds.

A prism doesn't split light becayse of the material its made of, but because of its shape.

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It's not so much people being attracted to scarcity, but decades of diamond industry propaganda having an effect on our culture. Even now there's an active effort being put by the diamond industry into keeping natural diamonds the "forever gem" while artificial gems made in a lab are being portrayed as "everyday gems", as in less prestigious.

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Why does it say "likeley generated by AI"? If it's 43%, that means it's more likely to be written by a Human.

Margot Robbie

At this point you're not paying money for a diamond, you're paying money for a certificate.

If you want to know how much a diamond is really worth, go to any jewelry store and ask them to appraise the resell value of your natural diamond ring with certificate and all, no matter how much you paid for it, they're probably going to tell you only the precious metal setting is worth any money, and the rock itself is utterly worthless the second you received it.

Which makes diamond a terrible symbol for love.