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In the lab grown / synthetic diamond forum I started a thread with this title:
How Governments can change words and meanings
Please do not post here, post over there please.
But FYI this is what I wrote:
I looked up the date and wording of the FTC ruling on natural and synthetic diamonds. It was in 2018.
The word natural was deemed not to be used and diamond by itself described "mined diamond".
The term synthetic was dropped from the lexicon for diamond, and the language used by the FTC almost always has Laboratory or Lab infront of diamond.
So what you ask?
Shortly there after the GIA's excellent Gems & Gemology journal has hardly ever used synthetic and diamond in the same sentence, whereas prior to 2018 it was the norm. The new normal is Laboratory Grown.
All other articles about other gemstones refer to the man made version as Synthetic.
Interesting!
How Governments can change words and meanings
Please do not post here, post over there please.
But FYI this is what I wrote:
I looked up the date and wording of the FTC ruling on natural and synthetic diamonds. It was in 2018.
The word natural was deemed not to be used and diamond by itself described "mined diamond".
The term synthetic was dropped from the lexicon for diamond, and the language used by the FTC almost always has Laboratory or Lab infront of diamond.
So what you ask?
Shortly there after the GIA's excellent Gems & Gemology journal has hardly ever used synthetic and diamond in the same sentence, whereas prior to 2018 it was the norm. The new normal is Laboratory Grown.
All other articles about other gemstones refer to the man made version as Synthetic.
Interesting!
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