Synthetic diamond
DIAMOND PRODUCED IN AN ARTIFICIAL PROCESS, AS OPPOSED TO NATURAL DIAMONDS, WHICH ARE CREATED BY GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES
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Lab grown diamond (LGD, also called laboratory-grown, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan created, or cultured diamond) is diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed diamond, which is created through geological processes and obtained by mining). Unlike diamond simulants (imitations of diamond made of superficially-similar non-diamond materials), synthetic diamonds are composed of the same material as naturally formed diamonds – pure carbon crystallized in an isotropic 3D form – and share identical chemical and physical properties.