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16/12/1954 Synthetic diamond

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How its made - Synthetic Diamonds كيفية صناعة الالماس الصناعي

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Are Man-Made Diamonds Really Diamonds?

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Synthetic Diamonds BBC Documentary

American chemist Tracy Hall produced synthetic diamonds in General Electric Research Laboratories. He was not the first to claim it. But he was the first who did it in a reproducible, verifiable, and witnessed way. He used a press, which was capable of producing pressures above 10 GPa and temperatures over above 2 000 °C.
    • Essentials 

    • History 

    • GE diamond project 

    • Later developments 

    • Manufacturing technologies 

    • High pressure, high temperature 

    • Chemical vapor deposition 

    • Detonation of explosives 

    • Ultrasound cavitation 

    • Crystallinity 

    • Impurities and inclusions 

    • Thermal conductivity 

    • Machining and cutting tools 

    • Thermal conductor 

    • Optical material 

    • Electronics 

    • Gemstones