Lab Grown Diamonds - Synthetic And Manufactured is so Different than Cultured - Don't get confused.

Lab-grown diamonds now an alternative. 2007 and now 2008, the first wave of gem-quality cultured manufactured diamonds began to hit the market. More intriguing, it opens the door to the development of diamond-based engineers. There is a difference and gemoligists are unable to tell the difference no matter what you read, don't be confused when they lump in other forms of manufacturing, synthetic building into the arguement. Diamonds may well be the world’s most beautiful gem, though we suspect there are many factors contributing to why they remain a “girl’s best and as well a man's best friend, just ask his wallet.

Man-made diamonds: a girl's new best friend? - MSN Money

Our lab-grown White Diamonds often sell for 1/7th the price of equivalent mined white diamonds and our lab-grown pink diamonds are offered for as little. Real gem-quality diamonds grown in labs are now entering the market -- and -- you guessed, gemoligist approved, tranditional market dispised. Most of the lab-grown diamonds are one carat or smaller, though you can get larger ones. I love this article on MSN

The cultured diamond industry is trying to persuade the Federal Trade Commission that lab-grown diamonds should be prohibited from using the term "cultured". You've got to be kidding. Where would the FTC be in the 1920s with the natural pearl industry and what type of pearls do we have 80 years later?