What is the shelf life of lab diamonds? (…are forever)

Lab diamonds have at least the same durability as mine diamonds, often they are even more compacted i.e. harder than mine diamonds and therefore even get the better durability.

Lab diamonds often have better color & clarity & hardness than mine diamonds

Although the FTC says diamonds are essentially pure carbon, the vast majority of mine diamonds contain trace amounts of other substances, notably nitrogen, which gives them a yellow color, or (rarely) boron, which gives them a blue color. In addition, they usually contain inclusions, tiny foreign bodies that were trapped in the still-forming diamond millions of years ago.

→ Lab diamonds therefore have often even a better color and purity (= quality). Partly Lab diamonds are even harder than mine diamonds because of a better “compression”. Nevertheless, inclusions also occur in lab diamonds. The inclusion types of lab diamonds are also found in mine diamonds. So they are not different/different types of inclusions. Only a few mine diamonds have so-called “natural inclusions”. Analogous to a mosquito in an amber. Such inclusions do not occur in lab diamonds in the “clean” lab environment.

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