Reply #7: Trouble with stealing [View All]

[DulceDecorum]

bags like that is one never does know what is inside.

I recall this incident where a fella at a bus station ripped off a small suitcase belonging to a young lady. Someone saw him and sounded the alarm. He was chased and caught.
The owner was nowhere to be found
and so the bag was opened to reveal
one dead infant.
Oops.
But the thief still got to go to jail.

I don't really understand why those thieves bothered to steal diamonds seeing as how there are these Russian-made machines in Florida that can create perfect diamonds out of regular carbon.

NEWSWEEK Feb. 14 2005 issue
Will the distinction between man-made diamonds and natural ones eventually disappear? The answer may hinge on whether De Beers can come up with a cheap and easy way of telling the two apart. Doing so conclusively currently entails a battery of high-tech instruments that's beyond the pale for most diamond appraisers. Gemologists at the International Gemological Institute, a New York-based firm, used a high-powered microscope on the diamonds provided by Apollo to look for inclusions—tiny marks a diamond would acquire underground while it was being formed. A diamond that's too clean (or too perfect, as Bryant Linares would have it) might be man-made—or it could simply be a very clean natural diamond. IGI then used a $40,000 machine to shoot a mid-infrared light through the diamonds to analyze the distribution of nitrogen atoms.

IGI next ran the diamonds through two devices supplied by De Beers. The first, called DiamondSure, checks the nitrogen content as well. The second, DiamondView, looks at a diamond's "growth structure" by illuminating the gem with a high concentration of ultraviolet light. The test can reveal a diamond made by high pressures, but it's stumped by Apollo's CVD diamonds, in which carbon atoms are formed more similarly to natural diamonds. In the final test—on a machine that costs $100,000—the IGI gemologists cooled a diamond in liquid nitrogen so an even more accurate reading could be taken. They then shot a laser through it and analyzed the wavelength. A natural diamond would measure a wavelength of 741 nanometers; Apollo's CVD diamond measured 737.

What happens when less scrupulous businesses start to get hold of these diamond-making technologies? High-pressure diamond presses could be made to fit on a desktop.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6920717/site/newsweek/