Real diamonds are being challenged everyday by fake diamonds
such as cubic zirconia and moissanites on
the market over both price, and beauty. After learning about all the different types and styles of
diamond earrings,
it's time to get to the juicy stuff: How to tell a real diamonds from fake diamonds!
First of all, we need to educate you in different types of fake diamonds.
There are many fake diamonds and diamond wanna-be's out there, glass, clear crystals, other colorless gems...
but none of them have the flare that real diamonds have, so it shouldn't be too difficult to distinguish between
real and fake. The most successful and indistinguishable fake diamonds are the cubic zirconia, also known as CZ
diamonds. If you are shaking your head right now and saying "oh oh you need to know about
the moissanite and white sapphires", then listen to this: we don't consider those diamond
fakes because they are valued for their own sake.
There have been tests conducted where a top of the line quality cubic zirconia was
examined together with a five million dollar genuine diamond by professional diamond
evaluators to see if they can tell which one was real. After much ado, the evaluator
concluded that both were fakes! This goes to show how powerful technology has become even
in the advancement of man-made fake jewelry.
If you are in the market to buy genuine, real diamonds, a rule of thumb would be to make
your purchase in a jewelry outlet that can provide you a legitimate diamond certificate which proves that
a diamond is real and genuine.
The most popular and renowned diamond certifiers of real diamonds are G.I.A. and E.G.L..
If you happen to be in a situation where you need to do a quick test between real and
the fake cz diamonds, here are a few simple guidelines:
- CZ's are more dense, so should feel heavier than real diamonds of the same size.
- When you breath on the stones, the fog on real diamonds disappears almost instantly,
while it lingers on a fake CZ.
- Try writing on the stone's surface with an ink pen. You'll notice that the ink balls
up on a cz, and stays a line on the real diamond.
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