Shiny not so Happy People
Listening to:My Favorite Game, Cardigans
Thinking of:
All things sparkling, put to shame and behold the diamonds exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Starting July 8th and featuring more bling than most can handle save billionaires and the blue blooded. To know more... google it!
However you'd think in exhibitions and conventions would discuss the issues surrounding the object of exhibition in relation to prevalent times. Rocks shall remain rocks some say (oh, by the way... diamonds aren't forever, its a marketing phrase by De Beers, though lets not be hasty... keep those rings on fingers and wherever else those shiny stones may reside) but the commercial threat of synthetic diamonds is at large.
Most of us know that these stones are "geminated" (sorry, can't help that one) by the same thing what most of us use to write. Good ol' graphite... widely and cheaply available at your nearest stationary store. Instead of graphite being cooked in the urns of the earth with a volcanic slurry at astonishing temperatures and pressures in attempt to create a type yet shiny volcanic souffle, these synthetic variants are cultured in labs (Talk about the ugly duckling story... from graphite to diamond, beat that swans!!)
The synthetic diamonds aren't your Petaling Street (to non Malaysians, PS is where a heck of a lot of counterfeit stuff is sold, usually of low quality) variants but almost indistinguishable from the actual decorative (and engineering) jewel and have fooled many a gemologists.
I have to go out more...
Thinking of:
All things sparkling, put to shame and behold the diamonds exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Starting July 8th and featuring more bling than most can handle save billionaires and the blue blooded. To know more... google it!
However you'd think in exhibitions and conventions would discuss the issues surrounding the object of exhibition in relation to prevalent times. Rocks shall remain rocks some say (oh, by the way... diamonds aren't forever, its a marketing phrase by De Beers, though lets not be hasty... keep those rings on fingers and wherever else those shiny stones may reside) but the commercial threat of synthetic diamonds is at large.
Most of us know that these stones are "geminated" (sorry, can't help that one) by the same thing what most of us use to write. Good ol' graphite... widely and cheaply available at your nearest stationary store. Instead of graphite being cooked in the urns of the earth with a volcanic slurry at astonishing temperatures and pressures in attempt to create a type yet shiny volcanic souffle, these synthetic variants are cultured in labs (Talk about the ugly duckling story... from graphite to diamond, beat that swans!!)
The synthetic diamonds aren't your Petaling Street (to non Malaysians, PS is where a heck of a lot of counterfeit stuff is sold, usually of low quality) variants but almost indistinguishable from the actual decorative (and engineering) jewel and have fooled many a gemologists.
I have to go out more...
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