{"id":9960,"date":"2024-09-03T19:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-lasers-are-being-used-to-write-inside-diamonds\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:17:23","slug":"why-lasers-are-being-used-to-write-inside-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-lasers-are-being-used-to-write-inside-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Why lasers are being used to write inside diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">I am peering through a jeweller&#8217;s eyeglass, looking for the BBC logo that has been inscribed inside a small diamond.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inscription has been made using unique technology developed by Oxford-based Opsydia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its machines are the only ones on the market that can penetrate the surface of a diamond and manipulate its atoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The logo I am trying to find is less than half a millimetre wide. Despite instruction from Lewis Fish, head of product at Opsydia, I can&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is very difficult,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They&#8217;re intentionally very fine, and it is really trained jewellers they are aimed at.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But why would anyone want to write on the inside of a diamond? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The big thing that&#8217;s happening in the industry is traceability and transparency,&#8221; says Andrew Rimmer, the chief executive of Opsydia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-62318016?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am peering through a jeweller&#8217;s eyeglass, looking for the BBC logo that has been inscribed inside a small diamond. The inscription has been made using unique technology developed by Oxford-based Opsydia. Its machines are the only ones on the market that can penetrate the surface of a diamond and manipulate its atoms. The logo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[5007,5006,2663],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-of-business","tag-diamonds","tag-lasers","tag-write"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}