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    Synthetic Diamond: Real is rare, are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?
    Synthetic Diamond: Real is rare, are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?
    Synthetic Diamond: Real is rare, are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?
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    Synthetic Diamond: Real is rare, are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?

    By Fouad Sabry

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    What Is Synthetic Diamond


    Lab-grown diamond is diamond that is produced by a manufacturing process, as contrasted with natural diamond created by geological processes and extracted by mining.


    How You Will Benefit


    (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:


    Chapter 1: Synthetic diamond


    Chapter 2: Detonation nanodiamond


    Chapter 3: Crystallographic defects in diamond


    Chapter 4: Diamond (gemstone)


    Chapter 5: Diamond


    Chapter 6: Gemstone


    Chapter 7: Materials science


    (II) Answering the public top questions about synthetic diamond.


    (III) Real world examples for the usage of synthetic diamond in many fields.


    (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of synthetic diamond' technologies.


    Who This Book Is For


    Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of synthetic diamond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOne Billion Knowledgeable
    Release dateJan 17, 2022
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      Synthetic Diamond - Fouad Sabry

      Synthetic Diamond

      Other Books by The Author

      1 - Plasma Propulsion

      2 - Pulse Detonation Engine

      3 - Agricultural Robotics

      4 - Closed Ecological Systems

      5 - Cultured Meat

      6 - Vertical Farming

      7 - Autonomous Vehicles

      8 - Autonomous Drones

      9 - Autonomous Robotics

      10 - Autonomous Weapons

      11 - Arcology

      12 - 4D Printing

      13 - Domed City

      14 - Distributed Ledger

      15 - Digital Currency

      16 - Decentralized Finance

      17 - Smart Machines

      18 - Aerogel

      19 - Amorphous Metal

      20 - Bioplastic

      21 - Conductive Polymer

      22 - Cryogenic Treatment

      23 - Dynamic Armour

      24 - Fullerene

      25 - Graphene

      26 - Lab on a Chip

      27 - High Temperature Superconductivity

      28 - Magnetic Nanoparticles

      29 - Magnetorheological Fluid

      30 - Microfluidics

      31 - Superfluidity

      32 - Metamaterial

      33 - Metal Foam

      34 - Multi Function Structure

      35 - Nanomaterials

      36 - Programmable Matter

      37 - Quantum Dot

      38 - Silicene

      39 - Superalloy

      40 - Synthetic Diamond

      41 - Time Crystal

      42 - Translucent Concrete

      43 - Brain Computer Interface

      44 - Swarm Intelligence

      Series by The Author

      Emerging Technologies in Aerospace

      1 - Plasma Propulsion

      2 - Pulse Detonation Engine

      Emerging Technologies in Agriculture

      1 - Agricultural Robotics

      2 - Closed Ecological Systems

      3 - Cultured Meat

      4 - Vertical Farming

      Emerging Technologies in Autonomous Things

      1 - Autonomous Vehicles

      2 - Autonomous Drones

      3 - Autonomous Robotics

      4 - Autonomous Weapons

      Emerging Technologies in Construction

      1 - Arcology

      2 - 4D Printing

      3 - Domed City

      Emerging Technologies in Finance

      1 - Distributed Ledger

      2 - Digital Currency

      3 - Decentralized Finance

      Emerging Technologies in Information Technology

      1 - Smart Machines

      Emerging Technologies in Materials Science

      1 - Aerogel

      2 - Amorphous Metal

      3 - Bioplastic

      4 - Conductive Polymer

      5 - Cryogenic Treatment

      6 - Dynamic Armour

      7 - Fullerene

      8 - Graphene

      9 - Lab on a Chip

      10 - High Temperature Superconductivity

      11 - Magnetic Nanoparticles

      12 - Magnetorheological Fluid

      13 - Microfluidics

      14 - Superfluidity

      15 - Metamaterial

      16 - Metal Foam

      17 - Multi Function Structure

      18 - Nanomaterials

      19 - Programmable Matter

      20 - Quantum Dot

      21 - Silicene

      22 - Superalloy

      23 - Synthetic Diamond

      24 - Time Crystal

      25 - Translucent Concrete

      Emerging Technologies in Neuroscience

      1 - Brain Computer Interface

      Emerging Technologies in Robotics

      1 - Swarm Intelligence

      One Billion Knowledgeable

      Synthetic Diamond

      Real is rare, are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?

      Fouad Sabry

      Copyright

      Synthetic Diamond Copyright © 2021 by Fouad Sabry. All Rights Reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

      Cover designed by Fouad Sabry.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Bonus

      You can send an email to 1BKOfficial.Org+SyntheticDiamond@gmail.com with the subject line Synthetic Diamond: Real is rare, are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?, and you will receive an email which contains the first few chapters of this book.

      Fouad Sabry

      Visit 1BK website at

      www.1BKOfficial.org

      Preface

      Why did I write this book?

      The story of writing this book started on 1989, when I was a student in the Secondary School of Advanced Students.

      It is remarkably like the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Schools, which are now available in many advanced countries.

      STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. This term is typically used to address an education policy or a curriculum choice in schools. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

      There was a weekly class in the library, where each student is free to choose any book and read for 1 hour. The objective of the class is to encourage the students to read subjects other than the educational curriculum.

      In the library, while I was looking at the books on the shelves, I noticed huge books, total of 5,000 pages in 5 parts. The books name is The Encyclopedia of Technology, which describes everything around us, from absolute zero to semiconductors, almost every technology, at that time, was explained with colorful illustrations and simple words. I started to read the encyclopedia, and of course, I was not able to finish it in the 1-hour weekly class.

      So, I convinced my father to buy the encyclopedia. My father bought all the technology tools for me in the beginning of my life, the first computer and the first technology encyclopedia, and both have a great impact on myself and my career.

      I have finished the entire encyclopedia in the same summer vacation of this year, and then I started to see how the universe works and to how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

      My passion to the technology started mor than 30 years ago and still the journey goes on.

      This book is part of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies which is my attempt to give the readers the same amazing experience I had when I was in high school, but instead of 20th century technologies, I am more interested in the 21st century emerging technologies, applications, and industry solutions.

      The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies will consist of 365 books, each book will be focused on one single emerging technology. You can read the list of emerging technologies and their categorization by industry in the part of Coming Soon, at the end of the book.

      365 books to give the readers the chance to increase their knowledge on one single emerging technology every day within the course of one year period.

      Introduction

      How did I write this book?

      In every book of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies, I am trying to get instant, raw search insights, direct from the minds of the people, trying to answer their questions about the emerging technology.

      There are 3 billion Google searches every day, and 20% of those have never been seen before. They are like a direct line to the people thoughts.

      Sometimes that’s ‘How do I remove paper jam’. Other times, it is the wrenching fears and secret hankerings they would only ever dare share with Google.

      In my pursuit to discover an untapped goldmine of content ideas about Synthetic Diamond, I use many tools to listen into autocomplete data from search engines like Google, then quickly cranks out every useful phrase and question, the people are asking around the keyword Synthetic Diamond.

      It is a goldmine of people insight, I can use to create fresh, ultra-useful content, products and services. The kind people, like you, really want.

      People searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. Therefore, this book is a live product, and constantly updated by more and more answers for new questions about Synthetic Diamond, asked by people, just like you and me, wondering about this new emerging technology and would like to know more about it.

      The approach for writing this book is to get a deeper level of understanding of how people search around Synthetic Diamond, revealing questions and queries which I would not necessarily think off the top of my head, and answering these questions in super easy and digestible words, and to navigate the book around in a straightforward way.

      So, when it comes to writing this book, I have ensured that it is as optimized and targeted as possible. This book purpose is helping the people to further understand and grow their knowledge about Synthetic Diamond. I am trying to answer people’s questions as closely as possible and showing a lot more.

      It is a fantastic, and beautiful way to explore questions and problems that the peoples have and answer them directly, and add insight, validation, and creativity to the content of the book – even pitches and proposals. The book uncovers rich, less crowded, and sometimes surprising areas of research demand I would not otherwise reach. There is no doubt that, it is expected to increase the knowledge of the potential readers’ minds, after reading the book using this approach.

      I have applied a unique approach to make the content of this book always fresh. This approach depends on listening to the people minds, by using the search listening tools. This approach helped me to:

      Meet the readers exactly where they are, so I can create relevant content that strikes a chord and drives more understanding to the topic.

      Keep my finger firmly on the pulse, so I can get updates when people talk about this emerging technology in new ways, and monitor trends over time.

      Uncover hidden treasures of questions need answers about the emerging technology to discover unexpected insights and hidden niches that boost the relevancy of the content and give it a winning edge.

      Stop wasting time on gutfeel and guesswork about the content wanted by the readers and fill the book content with what the people need and say goodbye to the endless content ideas based on speculations.

      Make solid decisions, and take fewer risks, to get front row seats to what people want to read and want to know — in real time — and use search data to make bold decisions, about which topics to include and which topics to exclude.

      Streamline my content production to identify content ideas without manually having to sift through individual opinions to save days and even weeks of time.

      It is wonderful to help the people to increase their knowledge in a straightforward way by just answering their questions.

      I think the approach of writing of this book is unique as It collates, and tracks the important questions being asked by the readers on search engines.

      Acknowledgments

      Writing a book is harder than I thought and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. None of this would have been possible without the work completed by prestigious researchers, and I would like to acknowledge their efforts to increase the knowledge of the public about this emerging technology.

      Dedication

      To the enlightened, the ones who see things differently, and want the world to be better -- they are not fond of the status quo or the existing state. You can disagree with them too much, and you can argue with them even more, but you cannot ignore them, and you cannot underestimate them, because they always change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones or amateur, others see genius and innovators, because the ones who are enlightened enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do, and lead the people to the enlightenment.

      Epigraph

      Lab-grown diamond is diamond that is produced by a manufacturing process, as contrasted with natural diamond created by geological processes and extracted by mining.

      Table of Contents

      Synthetic Diamond

      Other Books by The Author

      Series by The Author

      Synthetic Diamond

      Copyright

      Bonus

      Preface

      Introduction

      Acknowledgments

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Synthetic diamond

      Chapter 2: Detonation nanodiamond

      Chapter 3: Crystallographic defects in diamond

      Chapter 4: Diamond (gemstone)

      Chapter 5: Diamond

      Chapter 6: Gemstone

      Chapter 7: Materials science

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Coming Soon

      Appendices: Emerging Technologies in Each Industry

      Chapter 1: Synthetic diamond

      Six non-faceted diamond crystals of 2–3 mm size; the diamond colors are yellow, green-yellow, green-blue, light-blue, light-blue and dark blue

      Synthetic diamonds of various colors grown by the high-pressure high-temperature technique

      Lab-grown diamond (also known as synthetic diamond, laboratory-created diamond, manufactured diamond, man-made diamond, or cultured diamond) is diamond that is created through a manufacturing process, as opposed to natural diamond, which is created through geological processes and extracted through mining.

      Laboratory-grown diamonds are chemically and physically identical to natural diamonds. They are not to be confused with diamond simulants, which are constructed of non-diamond materials. Natural diamonds are made of the same substance as lab-grown diamonds: pure carbon crystallized in an isotropic 3D form.

      Attempts at diamond synthesis can be traced back to the turn of the twentieth century. Between 1879 and 1928, numerous scientists claimed to have created diamonds, but none were proven. In the 1940s, systematic research on diamond growth began in the United States, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, culminating in the first repeatable synthesis of diamond in 1953.

      This early diamond synthesis research in the United States, Sweden, and the Soviet Union resulted in the development of the CVD diamond (chemical vapor deposition) and HPHT diamond (high-pressure high-temperature) methods. These two procedures continue to dominate synthetic diamond production, however researchers have identified a third and fourth way of diamond synthesis. In the late 1990s, a third process, known as detonation synthesis, entered the diamond market. The detonation of carbon-containing explosives produces nanometer-sized diamond grains in this process. Scientists have also demonstrated a fourth technique of diamond production, using high-power ultrasound to treat graphite, but this process is not currently commercially viable.

      The properties of synthetic diamond depend on the manufacturing process. However, some synthetic diamonds (whether formed by HPHT or CVD) have properties such as hardness, thermal conductivity and electron mobility that are superior to those of most naturally formed diamonds. Synthetic diamond is widely used in abrasives, in cutting and polishing tools and in heat sinks. Electronic applications of synthetic diamond are being developed, including high-power switches at power stations, high-frequency field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes. Synthetic diamond detectors of ultraviolet (UV) light or high-energy particles are used at high-energy research facilities and are available commercially. Because of its unique combination of thermal and chemical stability, low thermal expansion and high optical transparency in a wide spectral range, synthetic diamond is becoming the most popular material for optical windows in high-power CO2 lasers and gyrotrons. It is estimated that 98% of industrial grade diamond demand is supplied with synthetic diamonds.

      The Federal Trade Commission in the United States has stated that the terms laboratory-grown, laboratory-created, and [manufacturer-name]-created would more clearly explain the nature of the stone. CVD and HPHT diamonds can both be cut into jewels and come in a variety of colors, including clear white, yellow, brown, blue, green, pink, and orange. The introduction of synthetic jewels into the market raised significant worries in the diamond trading industry, prompting the development of specialized spectroscopic apparatus and procedures for distinguishing synthetic and genuine diamonds.

      History

      A person standing next to a machine Description automatically generated with low confidence

      Moissan trying to create synthetic diamonds using an electric arc furnace

      After the 1797 discovery that diamond was pure carbon, many attempts were made to convert various cheap forms of carbon into diamond. The earliest successes were reported by James Ballantyne Hannay in 1879 and by Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan in 1893. Their method involved heating charcoal at up to 3500 °C with iron inside a carbon crucible in a furnace. Whereas Hannay used a flame-heated tube, Moissan applied his newly developed electric arc furnace, in which an electric arc was struck between carbon rods inside blocks of lime. The molten iron was then rapidly cooled by immersion in water. The contraction generated by the cooling supposedly produced the high pressure required to transform graphite into diamond. Moissan published his work in a series of articles in the 1890s.

      Many other scientists attempted to reproduce his findings. In 1909, Sir William Crookes declared victory. Otto Ruff claimed to have created diamonds up to 7 mm in diameter in 1917, but afterwards renounced his claim. Dr. J Willard Hershey of McPherson College reproduced Moissan and Ruff's work in 1926, yielding a synthetic diamond, which is now on exhibit at the McPherson Museum in Kansas. Despite Moissan, Ruff, and Hershey's assertions, other researchers were unable to replicate their synthesis.

      Sir Charles Algernon Parsons made the most definitive replication attempts. A notable scientist and engineer best known for inventing the steam turbine, he spent over 40 years (1882–1922) and a significant portion of his money attempting to replicate Moissan and Hannay's research, but also adapted his own procedures. Parsons was noted for his meticulously exact methodology and methodical record keeping; all of his final samples were saved for independent analysis. He published a number of essays, some of which were among the first on HPHT diamonds, in which he claimed to have created tiny diamonds. However, in 1928, he gave Dr. C. H. Desch permission to print an article in which he declared that no synthetic diamonds (including those of Moissan and others) had been made up to that

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