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by giblfiz 3491 days ago
Without actually knowing anything about the subject my guess is that the very cheep synthetic diamonds you heard about were / are intended for tools, (Where all that they care about is the hardness, so they can be small, yellow, and messy)

Also, I do know that you can get synthetic ruby for ~$1/carat on ali-baba. (I actually bought a few)