How Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Made – Billions of Dollars in American Labs | THE MAKING

How Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Made – Billions of Dollars in American Labs | THE MAKING

Diamonds have always symbolized love, luxury, and success. For billions of years, they formed deep underground under extreme heat and pressure. But today, American labs can grow diamonds in just two weeks — creating a high-tech industry worth billions of dollars.

In this documentary, we take you inside the lab-grown diamond factories where science replaces mining. From tiny carbon “seeds” placed in plasma chambers hotter than the surface of the sun, to robotic arms guiding growth, cutting, and polishing, you’ll see how technology has transformed one of the rarest gems on Earth into something that can be produced on demand.

These lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical to mined stones, yet cheaper, cleaner, and raising big questions for the jewelry industry. Will lab-grown gems replace natural diamonds? And what does this mean for the global market?

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00:00 – Intro: From Billion Years to 2-Week Diamonds
01:03 – The Engineering Challenge of Making Diamonds
01:44 – HPHT Method – Diamonds in a Pressure Cooker
02:29 – CVD Method – Growing Diamonds From Gas
03:06 – The Color Game & Quality Control
04:16 – Scaling Up – Speed & Detection Challenges
05:14 – The Future of Diamonds Is Now
05:49 – Outro: The Amazing Reality of Lab-Grown Gems