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by glassounds 585 days ago
By the way artificial diamonds and synthetic diamonds are the exact same thing:

> A synthetic diamond or laboratory-grown diamond (LGD), also called a lab-grown diamond, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond.

Artificial also means non natural, not necessarily a mock or something that behaves like something else:

> made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural

2 comments

> artificial diamonds and synthetic diamonds are the exact same thing

No, they aren't. Artificial diamond generally refers to cubic zirconia - which is not a diamond.

Synthetic diamond refers to genuine diamonds produced by humans (rather than natural forces).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_simulant#Artificial_si...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

> By the way artificial diamonds and synthetic diamonds are the exact same thing

I think that was their exact point. The terms are equivalent but carry different connotations