After the ashes are turned into diamonds, they are given to relatives as jewelry to wear, which is not only a beautiful decoration, but also the best memorial to the deceased family. Greg Shiloh, the head of the company, said that their idea is based on the fact that the main component of all animals is carbon, and the main component of diamonds is carbon. When people die, gravestones and urns are of course inconvenient to take away, and relatives can't stay with their deceased relatives every day. Now the company has turned the ashes of the deceased into blue diamonds and made them into jewelry for relatives to wear, which has solved this problem well.
Diamond value
Diamond heart
Hiro said that as an entrepreneur, he is always thinking of new ideas to make money. He spent three years studying the technology of turning ashes into diamonds. He tried again and again, and finally made a diamond from human ashes in July this year. This kind of diamond is of good quality and reasonable price, which not only makes money for merchants, but also makes customers accept it. "Life Gem" souvenir company revealed that at present, they can extract carbon from a small amount of ashes to make a 0.25-carat diamond worth $4,000, while the value of a 1 carat diamond made from ashes can reach $22,000.
manufacturing process
The process of turning ashes into diamonds is complicated. People must first extract carbon from ashes and then heat it to 3000℃ to turn it into graphite. Next, the graphite will be stored in a pressure vessel for 2 weeks, forming an "artificial diamond" under huge high temperature and pressure. In nature, it takes millions of years for a natural diamond to form a diamond, and its price will naturally be higher. According to the different requirements of customers, experts will further cut, process and polish these artificial diamonds, and finally turn them into a sparkling diamond and become a "unique and eternal souvenir".
Characteristic description
As early as the mid-1950s, people could make synthetic diamonds. At that time, the American "General Electric Company" invented the technology of making industrial small-particle diamonds. Avirom Blonger, a chemistry professor at Depaul University in Chicago, said that using the ashes diamonds in human ashes,
It is feasible to make high-quality diamonds from carbon. If high temperature and high pressure are used and carefully operated, high quality diamonds can be produced. The process of making diamonds from ashes is as follows: firstly, the ashes are purified in a vacuum induction furnace with a high temperature of 5400 degrees, and then hardened at high temperature and high pressure, which is equivalent to the temperature and pressure when natural diamonds are formed. The whole process takes about 16 weeks. Hiro said that the diamonds they made from ashes can be completely comparable to the artificial diamonds in jewelry stores. The European Gemstone Laboratory is an independent organization to identify the quality of jewelry. The "Life Gemstone" souvenir company asked the laboratory to identify two "ashes diamonds". In order to avoid prejudice, they mixed two "ashes diamonds" with ordinary synthetic diamonds, and all the diamonds passed the appraisal.
Product future
Once the news that ashes can be made into diamonds spread, people showed great interest in it. On the website of Life Gem Souvenir Company, several customers who requested this service were announced, most of them were funeral parlours, and there were also personal contacts. Ferguson Funeral Home in North Syracuse, new york was the first to get in touch with Life Gem Souvenir Company. Patricia Ferguson, the person in charge of the funeral home, said that turning the ashes of relatives into diamonds is much more meaningful than putting them in an urn or burying them in a cemetery. In the United States, 26% of the dead are cremated, and the proportion is still increasing. "Life Gem" said that they would not limit their eyes to the United States, but would open up overseas markets. The cremation rate in China is very high, and that in Japan is as high as 98%. There will be a huge potential market for ashes diamonds in the world. As long as it is carefully developed, there will be rich returns.
Questions from all sides
First, China people have always advocated "burial", and the reform from customary burial to cremation is extremely difficult. Now, it is even more difficult to advocate "diamond burial". Second, this technology is not available in China. In order to manufacture "ashes diamond", it takes a long time to transport the ashes abroad for processing, and the cost of processing the ashes into diamonds is also quite expensive, 0.3 Klajo needs 20,000 yuan. Third, although some new funeral forms such as tree burial, sea burial and space burial have appeared in the society with the deepening of funeral reform, there is always an inextricable knot in turning the ashes of relatives into diamonds every day. In addition, it is not known whether refining diamonds from ashes belongs to commercial speculation for profit.
Comments from netizens
Netizen "Chi Zhongyu" believes that "this method is basically feasible, both fashionable and environmentally friendly, but I don't know how much ashes are needed. If there are too many, the refined diamonds will accidentally fall off. Don't even have a place to commemorate our ancestors, will it be shipped abroad? What if the ashes disappear abroad? So be careful. "