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  • GluWu@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    You can made lab diamonds from blood. Diamonds are just carbon and almost everything thing has carbon. You can right now get your dead relatives’ ashes made into a diamond. It would probably take a while to be able safely get enough of your own blood to make a diamond though. But that would make it more romantic, right?

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      7 months ago

      I’m not sure about the amount of blood you’d really need though since I think all of these “ashes to diamonds” places add their own carbon, too. From one such website:

      We combine your loved one’s carbon, a microscopic Diamond seed, and generic carbon into a growth cell.

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        7 months ago

        TBH I was hoping for something less clear diamond and more garnet/ruby looking.

        The man-made rubies you can get off AliExpress are pretty nice, but they don’t quite scream “deranged blood ritual”