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Gems & Gemology, Spring 1993, Vol. 29, No. 1
De Beers near Colorless-to-Blue Experimental Gem-Quality Synthetic Diamonds
Marie-Line T. Rooney, C. M. Welbourn, James E. Shigley, Emmanuel Fritsch, 和 Ilene Reinitz
Examination of five small boron-doped synthetic diamonds, grown by De Beers researchers for experimental purposes, reveals some diagnostic features not reported in previous studies of gem-quality synthetic diamonds. The presence of internal growth sectors that are blue, yellow, or near colorless has produced faceup colors in three faceted stones that vary from near colorless to bluish-greenish gray to blue. Because they look so different from previously reported De Beers synthetic diamonds, such faceted synthetics could go unrecognized without careful gemological testing should they ever become commercially available.
