The journey of a lab-grown diamond is nothing less of a controversial story filled with drama, scepticism and more. Only if it were a person, Netflix would be scrambling to cover the story of a diamond born in a small lab with dreams of taking over the world. It sounds like a documentary sitting comfortably on Netflix’s top 10 trending list. But to understand why lab-grown diamonds are so frowned upon, questioned, and criticised, we need to draw our conclusions on what a myth is and what the truth is.

Lab-grown diamonds are FAKE
To begin with, let us address the elephant in the room: Lab-grown diamonds are not fake diamonds. Technically, they are as authentic as a natural diamond that takes millions of years to form, as opposed to a lab-grown one which takes merely a week. How, you ask? Well, the devil is in the details. You see, natural diamonds are formed at very high pressures and temperatures under the surface. When carbon atoms are squeezed together, so much so, that they start touching other atoms and bond with four other atoms, it forms a diamond. This same process is replicated in a machine in a lab, and voila, we have a lab-grown diamond.