{"id":29341,"date":"2016-08-24T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T22:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/why-de-beers-is-spending-on-diamond-technology"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:04","slug":"why-de-beers-is-spending-on-diamond-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/why-de-beers-is-spending-on-diamond-technology","title":{"rendered":"Why De Beers is spending on diamond technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fraud detection technology is in high demand and growing thanks to areas such as India. However, there is a huge growing demand for synthetic diamonds in their use in technology, medical, synthetic biology as well.<\/p>\n

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It takes billions of years to produce a natural diamond, but a laboratory can grow one in days and to the untrained eye they look the same. In an attempt to protect its reputation, De Beers has developed technology that can spot the difference. Ivor Bennett reports.<\/p>\n

When dealing with diamonds, one can never be too sure. That\u2019s why at De Beers, it\u2019s not just humans checking the gems anymore, but machines too. SOUNDBITE (English) JONATHAN KENDALL, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIAMOND GRADING AND RESEARCH, SAYING: \u201cA synthetic is a man-made product. It\u2019s not a gem, it\u2019s not a beautiful product. It\u2019s not about love and affection and emotion. And it\u2019s not unique and it\u2019s not mysterious. And that\u2019s everything that a diamond is.\u201d It takes about 3 billion years to make a natural diamond. but just three weeks for a synthetic one. To the naked eye though, they look the same. So how do you tell the difference? SOUNDBITE (English) IVOR BENNETT, REUTERS REPORTER, SAYING: \u201cIt\u2019s all to do with how the stone looks under UV light. A natural diamond for example will appear dark blue in colour with a regular structure. But if i click on the synthetic one, you can see it\u2019s much lighter with these block-like structures, which is down to its irregular growth.<\/p>\n

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Fraud detection technology is in high demand and growing thanks to areas such as India. However, there is a huge growing demand for synthetic diamonds in their use in technology, medical, synthetic biology as well. It takes billions of years to produce a natural diamond, but a laboratory can grow one in days and to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66445,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions\/66445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}