Cremation Diamonds Are Sustainable Diamonds

No matter how a diamond is made, regardless of whether it is human-made or natural, the base is carbon. Carbon develops in all organic elements, from animals to people to vegetation; carbon even occurs in other naturally forming matter, including petroleum, natural gas, and coal.

Carbon always has to be utilized to create a diamond, no matter human-made or natural. Not only that, but carbon has to be presented to the types of devastatingly high pressures and heat that naturally occur in the Earth's mantle (where diamonds naturally form) to form the astonishing elegance of a natural diamond.

While it might not seem real that you can take the fine form of ashes and transform them into the faultless and gorgeous shape of a diamond, the crucial part is to utilize the carbon in the cremains. Once this carbon is procured, it can be presented to the same environmental circumstances that create diamonds within Earth.

Most shops start the method of converting a loved one's cremains into a gorgeous memorial diamond by using chemicals to pull out the carbon from the ashes. Depending on the carbon's purity in the ashes and how much is able to be extracted, a shop might have to mix in generic carbon to create the full amount needed to initiate the diamond forming process.

After the carbon is disengaged from the cremains, most shops present the carbon to high pressure, high-temperature conditions that simulate the atmosphere that creates one-of-a-kind natural diamonds.

As mentioned, carbon is the base for diamonds. Although a diamond can occur only if said carbon is presented to a specific type of high pressure, high-temperature atmosphere that forces the carbon into the dear form of a diamond. 

At a jeweller who makes ash diamonds, the carbon from the cremains should be delicately placed within a machine engineered to simulate the high pressure and high-temperature found in the Earth's mantle. Fun fact, the device needed to make this happen actually produces a force of 60,000 atmospheres, which is more than 880,000 pounds per square inch. 

The intense heat and pressure inside the machine force the atoms in the carbon to form into a diamond's perfect shape. Think of this process being similar to a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly!

After the diamond finishes forming, it is then cut and polished to your specs and placed within the setting of your choosing.

Before submitting your loved one's cremains, you should work with a consultant at a shop to select things such as the color and cut. What is cool about this part is that you can have the piece reflect your loved one, perhaps using a color or jewellery style that they enjoyed.

The result of the entire process will be a stunning piece of diamond jewelry that mirrors the life, virtue, and beauty of your deceased friend or family member.

Not to mention, you created a beautiful diamond that is sustainable.