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To: Chris who wrote (7513)3/5/2000 9:24:00 AM
From: Famularo  Respond to of 7966
 
Chris, good job re comments on cultured diamonds. What's next, cultured gold!....



To: Chris who wrote (7513)3/5/2000 10:28:00 AM
From: Brinks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7966
 
Chris Interesting comments. Thanks. They ARE NOT more brittle. Article states they are as hard. The whole thrust of Nanotechnology is to replicate Mother Nature. I doubt people will care about paired nitrogen atoms versus single.
See below!!


"A typical jeweler could not distinguish between real diamonds and the University of Florida diamonds, Abbaschian said. The only difference is at the atomic level: Real diamonds contain paired nitrogen atoms, while the man-made diamonds contain only single nitrogen atoms."