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That’s a very good analogy. Just as we ‘seed’ an oyster to make a cultured pearl, created diamonds are started from a man-made seed. The culturing of a pearl starts with the implantation of a ball in an oyster’s mantel tissue. While that ball becomes the center of the resultant pearl, however, the diamond seed is later removed.
