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Alan Blom chooses Donna Root for strategic partnership to sell both natural diamonds and cultured diamonds grown from diamond seeds directly to jewelry consumers. Hollywood, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 24, 2011 Today, Donna Root announced her strategic partnership with diamond industry expert, Alan Blom, whose family is the oldest diamond family in the world, established in 1630. This strategic partnership establishes Donna Root and her company Diamonds by Donna, as the first company in...
Australian researchers say they have demonstrated the first laser built with diamonds that has comparable efficiency to lasers built with other materials. The scientists said their Raman laser paves the way to new defense technologies and improved surgical uses. They said the properties of diamonds also may lead to more powerful lasers that can be optimized to produce laser light colors currently unavailable to existing technologies. Led by Richard Mildren of Macqaurie University in Sydney...
First efficient diamond Raman laser paves the way to new defense technologies and improved laser surgeryTomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses man-made diamonds to enhance the power and capabilities of lasers. Researchers in Australia have now demonstrated the first laser built with diamonds that has comparable efficiency to lasers built with other materials.This "Raman" laser has applications that range from defense technologies and...
Hair burned off Michael Jackson's head during a pyrotechnic accident 25 years ago is to be transformed into laboratory diamonds, LifeGem said Friday.The singer died June 25 at the age of 50. The cause of his death is still under police investigation.LifeGem said the hair was obtained by Ralph Cohen, an executive producer on the Pepsi commercial in which Jackson was injured in 1984. Reportedly among the first to reach Jackson when his hair caught fire, Cohen threw his jacket over the singer's...
CHICAGO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- When executive producer Ralph Cohen scooped up the charred hair Michael Jackson lost in the filming of the now-infamous Pepsi commercial, he had no idea that he was saving an important piece of history.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090724/CG51565)Now, this closest connection to Jackson himself is being preserved by John Reznikoff one of America's most highly respected collectors, and being used by LifeGem the world's first purveyor of...
HOUSTON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- From ashes to diamonds, Algordanza, a Switzerland-based company, memorializes deceased loved ones through the creation of innovative memorial diamonds. *(PHOTO 72dpi: www.Send2Press.com/mediaboom/09-0623-Algordanza_72dpi.jpg) *(Photo Caption: The Memorial Diamond.) Algordanza's memorial diamonds are the result of a finely-tuned process whereby the ashes or hair from a deceased loved one are turned into genuine human diamonds that will last forever....
3rd consecutive year of record holiday sales; total sales capped due to selling out of key sizes for Asha diamond simulants (or 'fake diamonds') ISSAQUAH, Wash., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- BetterThanDiamond.com (http://BetterThanDiamond.com) today announced record holiday sales revenue for the month of December, posting its best-ever holiday sales season. Sales revenue climbed 7% versus the previous December, with total sales being capped due to selling out of a number of key sizes of its...
A U.S. company says it is ready to take its diamond-making process into the marketplace and produce high-quality gems at a reasonable price. Stephen Lux, founder of Gemesis Corp., told the San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday its machines could produce a 3-carat diamond every four days. The process involves using particles of natural diamond dust that are combined with metal and graphite and then subjected to intense heat and pressure. "These are diamonds," Lux said. "Just from a different...
Teams of researchers from Penn State, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Naval Research Academy have recently discovered a trait of blue diamonds that could prove to be invaluable. When a white or natural light shines on the Hope Diamond, it glows a brilliant blue; when an ultraviolet light shines on the Hope Diamond, it glows a bright red-orange for five minutes. Most diamond colors fluoresce; they only emit visible light as long as they are stimulated with uv radiation. Teams of...
By Korn, Derek R Sandvik Tooling has acquired U.S.-based Diamond Innovations Inc., formerly the superabrasives division of General Electric. Diamond Innovations develops and produces synthetic diamond and cubic boron nitride (CBN) products for industrial applications such as machining, grinding, rock drilling, wire drawing and oil and gas drilling. Diamond Innovations' headquarters and largest production facility are located in Worthington, Ohio. The company also has facilities in Florida,...
