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Lab grown diamonds collapsed the DeBeers empire, now the scale is being prepared for the future tech needs

Diamonds of abundance: How science dismantled an empire and built an industry

Lab-grown diamonds have collapsed a century-old empire built on the hype of sentimentality and romanticism, and are now getting ready to be a part of the technology infrastructure taking humanity forward. De Beers established a monopoly by selling a myth; science has broken it.

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