Diamond sales dropping, Debeers blames lab-grown

[sparcsParticipant 130]

A diamond may be forever — for some — but for millennials it’s looking like not so much

Maybe men are really waking up instead.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Who can afford the over priced carbon.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[sparcsParticipant 130]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

Who can afford the over priced carbon.

Yeah really … reading the article, imagine 10k for a ring. At 30years of age, compounding calculator at 5% says it would be 26k plus in 20 years.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

If a woman wants a diamond–tell her to buy a pencil bury it and come back and dig it up in 100,000 years.

[CataphractParticipant 2656]

They already use artificial sapphire to make tougher glass for our smart-phones, why not use artificial diamonds to make the toughest screens ever?

Marriage: About as appealing as wood-chipper diving.

[Anonymous 42]

Diamonds are for tile saws, core bores, stone cutting and all kinds of other USEFUL stuff!

Finger diamonds are for shoving up your ass!

[sparcsParticipant 130]

PistolPete wrote:

If a woman wants a diamond–tell her to buy a pencil bury it and come back and dig it up in 100,000 years.

You’re right.
Any sane person at that age would say “yes” to the marriage proposal and then invite the man to return the ring for the money to be invested.
When you add in wedding costs and honeymoon, that is a lovely chunk of cash to invest or put into buying a house.
Then again, chicks wait their whole lives for their “cindarella/princess” day.

[AwakenedParticipant 35200]

That’s ONE item that I will NEVER purchase again !!!

In a World of Justin Beibers Be a Johnny Cash

[TwistParticipant]

Awakened wrote:

That’s ONE item that I will NEVER purchase again !!!

Every time I hear the word diamond I am tempted to drag myself out back and kick my ass. And then do it again for good measure.

Spread the word far and wide. Over and over again. I think its working.

[bigboy83Participant 11312]

I here a whine coming from the c~~~s…….

Shit Tested, Cunt Approved.

[TuneoutParticipant]

sparcs wrote:

Yeah really … reading the article, imagine 10k for a ring. At 30years of age, compounding calculator at 5% says it would be 26k plus in 20 years.

So on top of the divorce settlement she could also make a nice profit by selling it,should read – Diamonds are forever – love is not.

Lifes a bitch,but you don't have to marry one!

[coolthingy450Participant 1223]

Hey I love diamonds. It makes sharpening powder steel like Crucible and Hitachi look like child play. Anytime someone mentions diamonds, I start to go into a steel and diamond talk for hours on end. Well at least on the knife forums. I love knives more then women mainly because they don’t stink like fish, and they do what they are suppose to do, and they don’t give you the stink eye. Plus I name my stuff because why not.

If you guys ever get into knives as a hobby, just give the powder steels a try.

Actions have consequences and consequences have prices. Cause and effect at work.

[Heave-Ho MgtowParticipant 1797]

Excellent…..

skip the cavernous vag and go your own way

[TwistParticipant]

Tuneout wrote:

So on top of the divorce settlement she could also make a nice profit by selling it,

Unless its an “investment grade” stone, rare in jewelry, it would probably net 1/3 of its original value. Diamonds (in so many ways) are a s~~~ investment.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

Cataphract wrote:

They already use artificial sapphire to make tougher glass for our smart-phones, why not use artificial diamonds to make the toughest screens ever?

Because chemistry.

Diamond is pure carbon. Glass is silicon and oxygen (SiO2). When you combine carbon and oxygen, however, you get carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2), which are gases. So adding carbon to silicon dioxide glass just makes bubbles as the carbon steals oxygen from the silicon and floats away.

While it is possible to find other ways to stuff carbon into or onto glass by including other elements, when you do that the carbon stops being diamond. Soot is also pure carbon.

Sapphire, on the other hand, is a combination of aluminum and oxygen (Al2O3 – a.k.a. Transparent Aluminum – Suck it Scotty!) in the same way that glass is silicon and oxygen. Unlike carbon dioxide (CO2), sapphire (Al2O3) has no problem being solid at the same temperatures as glass (SiO2) and has it’s own oxygen so it doesn’t need to steal any from the silicon.

Also, while sapphire is not quite as hard as diamond, it’s stronger and I believe it has a lower refractive index, making it better for glass screens.

[Chris1234Participant 353]

The debeers monopoly is an interesting read. Originally they marketed an engagement ring as something like a months salary and over time they have pushed it out to 3 months salary. Bloody scam!

[~BSParticipant 3266]

But David Johnson, midstream communications manager at The De Beers Group of Companies, said a diamond made in a lab in a matter of weeks will never rival the authenticity, nor the symbolic meaning of a gem that is billions of years old.

LOL… yes a synthetic diamond will never be a blood diamond and represent the killing of millions in Africa.
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Add to that millenials aren’t marrying as much as the older generation, nor are they falling into the “diamonds are rare” spiel. The fact that debeers was able to vault diamonds to the top of the precious stones and the wool over baby boomers’ eyes was quite a feat.

"He didn't marry until now, so he won't ever do it. Think about it, why would a man like him ever marry? It's too late to catch him. " ~some cunt

[AttonParticipant]

Buy them a dildo that is made from carbon fiber and squirts sodium hydroxide.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

sidecar wrote:

Cataphract wrote:

They already use artificial sapphire to make tougher glass for our smart-phones, why not use artificial diamonds to make the toughest screens ever?

Because chemistry.

Diamond is pure carbon. Glass is silicon and oxygen (SiO2). When you combine carbon and oxygen, however, you get carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2), which are gases. So adding carbon to silicon dioxide glass just makes bubbles as the carbon steals oxygen from the silicon and floats away.

While it is possible to find other ways to stuff carbon into or onto glass by including other elements, when you do that the carbon stops being diamond. Soot is also pure carbon.

Sapphire, on the other hand, is a combination of aluminum and oxygen (Al2O3 – a.k.a. Transparent Aluminum – Suck it Scotty!) in the same way that glass is silicon and oxygen. Unlike carbon dioxide (CO2), sapphire (Al2O3) has no problem being solid at the same temperatures as glass (SiO2) and has it’s own oxygen so it doesn’t need to steal any from the silicon.

Also, while sapphire is not quite as hard as diamond, it’s stronger and I believe it has a lower refractive index, making it better for glass screens.

With respect, Mostly right. Carbon won’t reduce SiO2 under normal conditions. Diamond is hard but it is brittle. A diamond will scratch anything, mostly, but hit it with a hammer and it shatters nicely. so will your screen. Well said about its optical properties.

Google gorilla glass if you are interested in the chemistry behind it.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[Anonymous 1]

Exactly what I was thinking tower. Now used on pump seals.

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