Lab diamonds are man made diamonds that consist of actual carbon atoms arranged in the characteristic diamond crystal structure.
Man made diamond simulant.
The american gem trade association defines a diamond simulant as.
Synthetic diamonds possess the same characteristics as naturally occurring diamonds but are grown in a laboratory man made diamonds.
Simulants can be distinguished from natural or lab grown diamonds using only the naked eye.
Synthetic diamond and diamond simulant.
Unlike cz and moissanite the diamond hybrid is infused with an outer layer of lab created diamond to improve beauty and durability almost twice as hard as a cz and achieve the best.
So from a value perspective you would need to be buying man made diamonds at a massive discount to justify giving up the value retention of natural diamonds.
Simulants do not have the same chemical and physical properties as diamonds and merely imitate the appearance of a diamond.
Made diamonds fall into the category of simulated man made diamonds or diamond hybrids because they combine real man made diamond with a non diamond core.
A man made single crystal which can be manufactured with different materials and designed to simulate the appearance but not duplicate the characteristic properties of a natural gemstone there are several brand names of simulated diamonds in the market today.
On the one hand you can look at it that an earth mined diamond will lose 50 of it s value more or less immediately after purchase but a lab created diamond will lose all of it s value.
Since the question implies you re looking for one the best gem as the answer my personal opinion is that moissanite is the best lab created simulant excluding lab grown diamonds themselves which are not a simulant but actual diamonds.
The diamond hybrid is also a diamond simulant but we refer to it as a hybrid as it is a blend of both simulant and lab created diamond technologies.
Our stones are classed as hybrids because they are a mixture of simulant and real synthetic diamond.
Then you can have them set the stone in silver 100 or 10 carat gold 200 resulting in a beautiful man made diamond ring for 1 000 or less.
In fact industry leader de beers has a new service called lightbox to sell man made diamonds.
The imitations fall into two distinct categories.
Simulants do not have the same chemical and physical properties as natural diamonds and therefore sell at much lower prices than man made diamonds.
Diamond has been imitated since the early 1900s.
That s why we created the nexus diamond alternative a stunning lab created diamond simulant that is visually as close to a natural diamond as possible.