Maybe it's my engineer-brain talking, but "lab-grown" actually biases me towards the diamonds. Feels precise and futuristic.

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XorNot 5 days ago | parent [-]

My wife wanted a sapphire and we met during Ph D research. It's straight up not possible to pay more then like, a dollar for a synthetic sapphire so that's what's in her ring.

	▲	AngryData 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you wanted you could even diy your own sapphires and rubies. It isn't a complicated process, but im sure its finicky to get everything perfect.
	▲	minetest2048 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I like my scintillator crystals.. they're purpose built to be very fluorescent
	▲	sgt101 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		where do you buy them at that price?