For real. (Letters).There are unfortunate multiple misuses of the word "artificial" in describing lab-grown diamonds in "Better-Built Diamonds: Fast growth, purity may multiply uses" (SN: 9/14/02, p. 165). In gemological use, artificial means imitation imitation, in music, a device of counterpoint wherein a phrase or motive is employed successively in more than one voice. The imitation may be exact, the same intervals being repeated at the same or different pitches, or it may be free, in which case numerous types or not real. In fact, the lab-grown diamonds described in your article are real, synthetic diamonds Synthetic diamond, also called lab-created, manufactured, "lab-grown" or cultured diamond is a term used to describe diamond (the tetrahedral carbon allotrope) which has been produced by a technological process, as opposed to natural diamond, which is with all the properties and chemistry of natural diamonds. FRED WARD Fred Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American actor. He began his career 1979 on the side of Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. Philip Kaufman once called him "The first cult actor of 2000". , BETHESDA, MD. |
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