cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9800514
This viral video currently trending in China shows a man holding a 2kg lab-grown ruby (10,000 carats). China has the world’s largest synthetic gemstone manufacturing capacity, mass-producing billions of carats annually, shattering artificial scarcity and bringing prices down for the masses.
Yes, they actually are literally grown in a lab. It sounds wild but it is real science happening in high-tech laboratories. When people say they are “grown,” they mean scientists are literally creating geological-scale giants inside a lab room.
The picture shows a single, massive 200 kg rough ruby crystal (left) and the refined, uniform cylinder that was cored out from the center of it (right).
Despite the insane size, it is chemically, physically, and optically identical to natural rubies dug out of the ground. Just grown in a controlled furnace instead of the Earth’s crust.
The tism in me wants to touch it. This is amazing
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If I had money, I would try to be a supplier of these in America to laboratories all over the country. After working in one doing manufacturing, rubies go for crazy money in equipment.
liberals really have been conditioned to prefer the supply and demand seesaw and the supposed inevitability of scarcity over this
Good, now all that needs to be done is for us to get off our asses and kill the blood diamond company CEO’s whom have been responsible for the slavery in Africa.
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it’s not funny if you can’t exploit poor people to extract it in a mine of an african nation!
