Long craved for their brilliance and luster, diamonds are also desirable for use in science and technology. Their expense and rarity, however, have limited their availability. As a result, scientists have spent the last hundred years trying to mass produce man made diamonds in the laboratory. Dr. Moissan kicked off the trend back in 1893, when he discovered tiny diamonds in a crater in Arizona and attempted to replicate them. Those “diamonds” were actually silicon carbide (SiC) and are now classified as Moissanite, diamond