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Synthetic diamonds definitely need a marketing glow up. Current names are man-made, lab grown, and synthetic diamonds. Instead we could lean into how cool the HPHT and CVD processes are and have - giga forged diamonds (gigapascal pressure of HPHT), plasma coalesced diamonds (CVD process), or even human forged diamonds (highlighting technological triumph required to achieve these).


Who wouldn’t want artisanal diamonds rather than found diamonds?


Dirt diamonds instead of found diamonds.


I think they should just call them natural diamonds because they’re indistinguishable from any other diamond.


Should just call them diamonds, deBeers only benefit when they're allowed to frame the discussion in such a way anyone cares enough to discriminate.

You just know they want to get the receiving partner on their side of "I'm worth the waste of money for a "real" diamond"


perfect lattice diamonds


They could call them perfected diamonds.


Humans seem to have a bias against "unnatural" language. Synthetic, artificial, man-made, these all evoke negative emotions in most people unfortunately.


Call them vegan diamonds. :D


This would sell. Vegan leather lol


Vegan leather made out of fungi has been a thing for a while.

Next stop is the self-repairing vegan leather also made of the mycelium: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repa...


Forge is a cool word but ... forgery?


Organic




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