Full Description
"The Diamond Formula" offers the diamond industry and all interested parties a comprehensive text on synthetic diamonds, joining together the research, achievements, theories, experimental and analytical data by recognized experts in the field, while encompassing a gemmological interpretation. The book offers the average gemmologist, gemmological (or mineralogical) student, or interested party, a concise and easy to decipher overview of the synthesis of diamonds to date. Each of the elements and various topics have at some time been the subject of a lengthy and detailed text in their own right and references are used to ensure that the reader can follow up these leads. The text begins with the history of diamond synthesis, and the theories on which much of the early work was based, before discussing the principles on which the modern processes rely. The following chapters cover the advent of success, commercial applications, synthetic diamond products, producers, gemmological properties and identification of synthetic diamonds. The final section discusses briefly diamond synthesis by CVD and application for this technology. This is a comprehensive text for a wide market.It provides an easy to decipher overview of the synthesis of diamonds. It includes a detailed reference section for follow up work.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; Early development; Percy Bridgman and high pressure physics; Principles of diamond synthesis; Putting the pieces together; Success in diamond synthesis; Birth of a billion dollar industry; Part 2 Synthetic diamond friend or foe?; Synthetic diamonds; Gemmology of synthetic diamonds; Scientific testing of synthetic diamonds; Identification of synthetic diamonds; Gemmological testing; Specialised separation instruments; Treated synthetic diamonds; Part 3 New diamond makers; CVD and the new breed of diamond makers; Gemmology and diamond film technology; Other methods of diamond synthesis; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
