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The whole fluorescent melee by color could be a thing.
UV penlight in the pocket/purse to show it off.
Fun!!
The whole fluorescent melee by color could be a thing.
UV penlight in the pocket/purse to show it off.
Fun!!
The whole fluorescent melee by color could be a thing.
For me it is not. It's that fact that our earth is capable of forming something like that. It's not so much the time factor. It's rather the nature factor. Futhermore I am a museums professional. I like things with history. The older the better. So I prefer vintage jewellery compared to new jewellery. I love both but prefer the first.
Exactly! This is why they are correctly categorized as "synthetic" diamonds, per the definitions of the words synthesis and synthetic.
From the Cambridge Dictionary:
synthesis
noun
/ˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/ uk /ˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/
synthesis noun (CHEMICAL PRODUCTION)
[ U ] chemistry specialized
the production of a substance from simpler materials after a chemical reaction
synthetic
noun [ C ]
/sɪnˈθetɪk/ us
an artificial substance or material:
Man-made gem products are known as synthetics.
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing....
Early on there was big $$ behind the Synthetic Diamond business (they used to sell 80% of Nat Price) they lobbied FTC etc to allow the use of Lab Grown instead of Synthetic... Essentially they wanted to make the product more palatable and create a false equivalency between their manufactured product and real diamonds.... And then they pushed the pejorative "Mined" or Earth Grown nonsense.....
Might man-made gem products refer to something more along the lines of cubic zirconia? It seems GIA does not use the word synthetic to describe lab-created diamonds: “GIA has been grading laboratory-grown diamonds since 2007. Beginning July 1, 2019, GIA Laboratory-Grown Diamond Reports and identification reports no longer use the term “synthetic.” The GIA Laboratory-Grown Diamond Report includes the standard GIA color, clarity and cut…”
I feel origin is much of the story... Origin should have been built into the definition of the word Diamond....
Like how a Meteorite and a man made blob of iron + nickle wouldn't be considered the same thing.
Disruption. That’s an accurate way to describe what man made diamonds have caused to the jewelry business as a whole.
I’ve been on Pricescope many years.
I’m a vendor, that’s clear.
I’ll be 100% bluntly honest here… as great as the forum and moderation has been, there are times I wonder the motivation of members who are very vociferous.
I’m not making any accusations here. But the disruption I refer to is deep.
A number of sellers of each sort of diamond feel the need to trash the other. That’s my whole point of starting this thread.
Maybe someone so desperately trying to change hearts and minds was deeply affected by these sales pitches.
Or they just want to stir the pot
Call me a hopeless optimist….. but the fact so much brouhaha has been made is a good sign. People are interested
I feel origin is much of the story... Origin should have been built into the definition of the word Diamond....
Like how a Meteorite and a man made blob of iron + nickle wouldn't be considered the same thing.
If I was younger, all of my diamonds would be synthetic or man-created or lab diamonds. I appreciate the absolute beauty of these stones, the ingenuity to create them and the price point. I am not affected by how they are labeled and would most likely share their origin immediately, I think they are amazing.
Labeling is an attempted control issue to elevate one's own status. How many unwitting consumers are wearing what others call "frozen spit" and yet they are earth grown diamonds? Should a pecking order be developed from that label...
A battle royale with contenders from the wonderfully wonky old cut club, the superideal fanatics, the lab grown posse, the strong blue fluoro mafia, the bad-cut-but-I-like-it group, the high and low color and clarity coalitions, the FCD marauders, the size-matters bunch (both the bigger-is-better party and the smaller-is-tasteful brigade), and (my team) the weird diamond cultists (adjective referent open to interpretation)..
LOL I have multiple rings with 4-5mm center stones
If somebody does, I will go over there and snark, too.
@glitterata your stone is cool.
Random diamond topic thread sounds fun.
Anybody care to venture a guess why my dark brown pink goes straight black sometimes? It’s the coolest effect. On another thread, we were hypothesizing that parts of the internal graining are at 90 degrees to each other so it is like polarized sunglasses.
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In the flurry of posts, I somehow missed this!!
Cool stone. Brown diamonds do get their color in a different manner than other colors. Especially deep brown diamonds.
Sometimes when you turn over a deep brown diamond it's practically colorless. The reason is that the color is caused by a "cloud" or opaque mass of color in the stone which can only be seen from the top.
@Rockdiamond and @Texas Leaguer Thanks!
I wish I had taken a photo of it upside down before setting. I don’t recall it being near colorless but maybe its internal color blob is really big? It does have a light area near the edges.
So beautiful! You must be thrilled to have such a unique diamond in your collection.
It also has a small clear part way down at the tip.
The report doesn’t say anything about a blob but the diamond is SI2 so there has to be something inside.
It has oodles of graining which IIRC that’s what causes the pink hue. And they seem to be perpendicular. That’s why our hypothesis was that the diamond kind of “polarizes” at certain angles.
And it shifts color all over the place.
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oncrutchesrightnow, I remember that ring and all those photos. It's spectacular and makes me severely and profoundly envious. SO cool. If they made this in a lab diamond, I woud buy it. But they don't.