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Re:Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own by a_c on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:46PM (#13086103)
Last month when the HN discussion on moissanite came out, I looked around for moissanite polishing tutorial and how to create your own moissanite. To my surprise, there were so limited resources available online
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Re:Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own by ISL on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:00AM (#13089650)
Manufacturing your own moissanite is hard. Crystalline silicon carbide is produced as an industrial process for the semiconductor industry. Jewelry makers purchase boules from them. The major US moissanite maker sources their SiC from Cree.

Cutting and polishing, however, should be comparable to any other gemstone.

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