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could you tell us what it looks like clean?Date: 1/31/2007 10:15:11 AM
Author: anne_h
Any response to FacetFire''s questions about seeing the pavillion?
I''m curious too now.
Anne
you can see through it - its clear! it just depends on how the facets are set up.Date: 1/30/2007 8:02:37 PM
Author: FacetFire
I thought you couldn''t see through the pavillion on a diamond, only a CZ. In this pic you can see the skin right through the pavillion. Am I wrong?
that''s just what diamonds do sometimes! They look pretty!! I can''t get those plain white crisp shots of my diamond because it is always pulling in color from somewhere.Date: 1/30/2007 1:32:01 PM
Author:anne_h
I find there to be a much larger show of rainbow colors on this diamond than I would expect. Why is this? The bottom up pic shows dirty fingerprints on the stone, could it be covered in grease and that explain the colors?
Or is it the old cut that causes that?
Thanks,
Anne
at the risk of giving someone the ammunition to say my stone must be ugly.... it has a 66% depth and I just took this:Date: 1/31/2007 12:01:12 PM
Author: FacetFire
Ah, found the answer from this site: http://www.diamondcuttersintl.com/diamond_education/articles/buying_diamonds/realthing.html in an article about telling a CZ from a diamond:
''The transparency test. If you flip the diamond in question upside down and place it over some newsprint and can clearly read through the stone, it’s not a diamond. (The problem with this test is some diamonds are cut shallow and can be read through.)''
couple things - first if you read the text you''ll see that it is the instructions for the ultrasonic ROFL - see at the bottom the "umming noise" hahahaDate: 1/31/2007 1:08:18 PM
Author: FireGoddess
Cehra I just love seeing pictures of that beautiful stone. So...are you supposed to be able to not see through a diamond in the respect that the text should look unchanged if it''s a cz? Because though you can see the print through the diamond, it is distorted..?
what is white fluoro?? never heard of it!!! but if this is a real thing (not doubting you lol) then that ring I saw at that pawn shop that LITERALLY looked like fog might have been a *severe* case of this because it really wasn''t all that blue but it was milky/hazy about 2 inches deep all around LOLDate: 1/31/2007 2:06:31 PM
Author: DiaGem
Could be white fluo.???
You have few shades of the phenomena called fluorescence..., White shade is one. I have not seen too many in my years in gems, but they do exist.Date: 1/31/2007 2:30:30 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
what is white fluoro?? never heard of it!!! but if this is a real thing (not doubting you lol) then that ring I saw at that pawn shop that LITERALLY looked like fog might have been a *severe* case of this because it really wasn''t all that blue but it was milky/hazy about 2 inches deep all around LOLDate: 1/31/2007 2:06:31 PM
Author: DiaGem
Could be white fluo.???
the diamond was clear - it just had this serious fog, even inside, that radiated out about an inch to two inches around in a 3D halo... I keep thinking about this ring and wondering if I could get it for a steal just for the oddness of it LOLDate: 1/31/2007 2:56:46 PM
Author: DiaGem
You have few shades of the phenomena called fluorescence..., White shade is one. I have not seen too many in my years in gems, but they do exist.Date: 1/31/2007 2:30:30 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
what is white fluoro?? never heard of it!!! but if this is a real thing (not doubting you lol) then that ring I saw at that pawn shop that LITERALLY looked like fog might have been a *severe* case of this because it really wasn''t all that blue but it was milky/hazy about 2 inches deep all around LOLDate: 1/31/2007 2:06:31 PM
Author: DiaGem
Could be white fluo.???
What you are describing sounds like the whitish/cloudy face up called ''Fancy white'' a term that I personaly dont understand... (but laboratories claim it is a type of Fancy Color for diamonds.
I was thinking of going downtown tomorrow... if I do I''ll see if they still have it and will let me take a pic... it seriously is THE strangest thing I''ve seen in my travels thus far.Date: 1/31/2007 5:33:57 PM
Author: DiaGem
Was clear?....
Serious fog, even inside?....
Sorry, but those two dont work together.