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Out of all the diamond simulants out there....is there a "best kind/type"? all of them tout that their diamond simulant is better than others, or how close it resembles a real diamond so closely, etc etc. -lawrence b. lugar |
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"Lawrence" Out of all the diamond simulants out there....is there a "best kind/type"? all of them tout that their diamond simulant is better than others, or how close it resembles a real diamond so closely, etc etc. Your subject line is in conflict with the word "simulant". "Created diamonds" as in synthetic, are real diamonds and not to be confused with simulants. Any clear stone can be considered a diamond simulant if one chooses to call it that. Other than hardness where diamond is king, there are several materials with other characteristics that are considerably more attractive than diamond. Your idea of "best kind" may be subjective but the important factors are brilliance and fire. Hardness is nice but unless you are making grinding wheels, it is not terribly important and of course, has no effect on how it looks. Brilliance is a function of refractive index and color/fire is a function of dispersion. Cubic Zirconia has a refractive index close enough to diamond that a difference in brilliance is in the noise if any at all. A well cut CZ could be more brilliant than a typical production cut diamond. The dispersion of CZ is significantly higher than diamond producing color and fire that no diamond can produce. I suppose they exist but I have never seen a dimond as beautiful as the CZ's I routinely cut from a few dollars worth of rough. For the sheer joy of fire, strontium titanate is probabbly the king. With ten times the dispersions of diamond, it is a light show on your finger and nothing I know of looks quite like it. As far as I know though, it can not be had in pure white and you have to settle for a hint of yellow. If one has one of these, they would probably never wear their boring old diamonds. The rough is quite a bit more expensive than CZ but orders of magnitude less than diamond. Don't know if this answers your question but these are two that I am familiar with. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.netfirms.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Gems, Sausage, http://schmidling.netfirms.com |
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Well, synthetic diamond of course is number one.
But if you mean diamond simulants - it's a toss up between CZ and Moissanite for the average observer, with a slight edge to Moissanite for being a little more problematic for 'knowledgable' people to distinguish. Depends on your end use I suppose. Carl 1 Lucky Texan Lawrence wrote: Hi. Out of all the diamond simulants out there....is there a "best kind/type"? all of them tout that their diamond simulant is better than others, or how close it resembles a real diamond so closely, etc etc. -lawrence b. lugar -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net) |
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Lawrence wrote:
Hi. Out of all the diamond simulants out there....is there a "best kind/type"? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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"Lawrence" wrote in message
... Hi. Out of all the diamond simulants out there....is there a "best kind/type"? all of them tout that their diamond simulant is better than others, or how close it resembles a real diamond so closely, etc etc. -lawrence b. lugar I'll always go for a hand cut CZ. Moissonite is way overpriced for my budget (especially compared to an alternative), and besides, some of it's optical characteristics (brilliance, if I'm not mistaken) are several times above same in diamond, and that's a significant diference. After all, it's marketed as "a gem like no other" (or whatever the logo says), and that says it all for me. |
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I think you are trying to ask : is there any artificial method to create diamonds ... "Simulant" is not diamond; but "Synthetic diamond" is diamond. You might check http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/gadget149.html for information about diamond. |
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