What are
lab-grown
diamonds?Fine jewelry for the next generation.
For centuries, diamonds have been a symbol of beauty and eternity. Yet today, before that brilliance reaches our hands, the jewelry industry faces real challenges — the environmental impact of mining, the consumption of natural resources, and a lack of transparency around origin.
Lab-grown diamonds are a new choice, made for the times ahead. Grown without mining, they are real diamonds with the same chemical composition, crystal structure, hardness, and brilliance as natural diamonds.
PRMAL chooses lab-grown diamonds to create jewelry that can be passed on to the future without compromising on beauty. Reverence for nature, uncompromised beauty, and responsibility for what comes next — this is what we believe fine jewelry for the next generation should be.
DifferencesThe same brilliance, a different origin.
The difference between lab-grown and natural diamonds lies in their origin.
Natural diamonds form deep within the earth over immense spans of time. Lab-grown diamonds are grown by scientifically recreating that natural environment, developing the same carbon crystal structure.
As a result, their physical and chemical properties as diamonds — hardness, refractive index, dispersion, thermal conductivity — are identical to natural diamonds. Leading gemological institutes grade them by the same standards, and the two cannot be told apart without specialized instruments.
The only difference is where they were born. A diamond is a diamond.
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Natural diamond
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Lab-grown diamond
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Cubic zirconia
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| Composition | C Carbon |
C Carbon |
ZrO2 Zirconium dioxide |
| Mohs hardness | 10 | 10 | 8.25 |
| Refractive index | 2.42 | 2.42 | 2.16 |
| Conductivity | High | High | Low |
| Structure | Cubic | Cubic | Cubic |