How Diamonds Are Made

Well, that goes for some diamonds.

There's another kind that are made by man. In recent years -- over the past four or five years -- there has been an explosion in synthetic diamond production, largely driven by factories in China and India. There are a lot of those factories (spurred by the relatively easy availability of the necessary production-line equipment) and they're all in cutthroat competition with each other, so there has been a race to the bottom on price.

You can get huge, very high-quality diamonds now for a fraction of what they used to cost. Like 95% off. It's crazy.

I wish articles/domains like this one, which are accessible, playful, informative, short, and with images would be easy to identify in HN.

That would be something worthwhile to share with children aged 8-12 who love learning new things.

And how diamonds are grown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

Amazing design. Very interactive!!

That's not how Superman did it.