Convert ashes into diamonds in the fond memory of your loved ones

Diamonds which are created from hair or from cremated remains are referred to as Memorial diamonds. In a general sense, memorial diamonds are created inside a laboratory and are also referred to as synthetic diamonds, laboratory grown diamonds or cultured diamonds. Gemological Laboratories like the Birmingham Assay Office, United Kingdom or the Gemological Institute of America, US grade few Memorial diamonds. During the 1950s, human ashes were converted into cremation diamonds successfully.

Memorial diamonds appeared in the market during the year 2000. There are several companies who claim to be the first to have provided. Memorial diamonds are gaining extreme popularity in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Netherlands, and Switzerland and in several other countries. Lonite AG is a reliable company if you are looking for getting a memorial diamond created in the memory of a beloved. Rely only on the experts when it comes to something special in your life.

Memorial diamonds are basically created from ashes and hair, while adding other types of carbon such as lab carbon as an addition as and when required. In case of hair, the same is subjected to a process of heat treatment for the extraction of carbon. The hair content is also analysed by few laboratories. A report with respect to hair analysis serves as an assurance of client. The process of diamond’s unique identification as well as the person based upon the composition of their hair has been explained in several patents.

Cremated humans as well as animal remains present in particulate or gaseous form can serve as a source of carbon. By using the conventional filtering technique, the carbon is filtered. Purification as well as graphitisation of carbon along with other elements take place for instance with the help of a halogen purification technique. It is to be noted that all of the carbon is oxidized as well as gasified during the process of cremation, thereby leaving almost no carbon in the remains.

Even if the minute traces of carbon can be successfully extracted from the carbonates present in the cremated ashes, over 99.5% of the carbon must be obtained from other sources in case of even a small diamond. By utilising the conventional diamond synthesis techniques, the extracted carbon is used for producing diamonds. Till 2009, only the high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) processes using cubic as well as belt presses were used to produce memorial diamonds.

A Swiss company named Lonite AG, has taken a unique as well as unexpected approach in order to memorialize our loved ones after they have passed away. The company basically compresses and super-heats the cremated ashes of your loved one’s and turns them into a diamond which is man-made and one that can be cherished and worn. The trained chemists of the company extract the carbon from cremated remains of the human in order to produce the synthetic stones. The carbon is then converted into graphite by heating it to very high temperatures.

Graphite is introduced in a machine which mimics the conditions which are found deep inside the Earth, which contributes to the growth of natural diamonds. The material is compressed as well as heated to temperatures of around 1,5000 C for a duration of several weeks. The ashes get transformed into a shiny raw diamond. Amber colour is imparted to the diamond due to presence of Nitrogen. If this is removed, then the diamond obtained would be colourless.