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Man Made Diamonds, The Affordable Alternative.
Diamonds may be a woman’s best friend, but modern man made
diamonds are so good as to be indistinguishable from real
diamonds. And when you look at the huge savings on price, man
made diamonds may be a woman’s best decision.
Increasingly, engaged couples are considering the cost of some
wedding jewelry. In today’s high pressure high cost lifestyle
couples are really wondering whether or not it is appropriate to
spend big on, say, a diamond engagement ring.
The more spent on wedding jewelry the less available later for
the important things in the marriage, like a house. Or the kids
when they arrive. Is it responsible to spend so much to buy a
diamond engagement ring when these more important things may need
to be compromised later?
Especially when you consider that good quality man made diamonds
cannot be distinguished from real diamonds, even by jewellers.
Faux diamonds are big business. The pearl jewelry industry was
revolutionised by the advent of cultured pearls. Synthetic
diamonds are doing the same thing to the wedding jewelry
business.
There are a range of ways to produce synthetic diamonds. Modern
technology is very adept at making any product which will sell
well and faux diamonds are no exception. And the quality is so
good that many of the alternatives to diamonds perform
exceedingly well when compared to diamond using the common
diamond quality tests.
In such tests as hardness, refractive index, fire, brilliance,
luster and others the man made diamonds perform admirably.
Sometimes even better.
Brilliance is a test of the amount of light which enters the
stone and gets reflected back. It is affected by the quality of
the cut of the stone.
Fire is the ability of the stone to break light down into it’s
component colors and is also affected by the cut. “Fire” can be
seen as color coming out of the stone.
Luster is the amount of light reflected back from the surface of
the stone.
Moissanite, for example, outperforms diamond in brilliance, fire
and luster and is only very slightly lower on the hardness scale.
In fact a special piece of testing equipment had to be designed
so that jewellers could tell moissanite from diamond as so many
were unable to.
And, of course, moissanite is much cheaper than diamonds. And if
most jewellers cannot tell it apart from diamonds, could you?
There are a range of different processes used to produce a stone
which is a good diamond alternative. Most produce fine quality
stones which produce stunning quality jewelry which any woman
would be proud to wear.
Moissanite is not strictly a man made diamond though, as it is,
in fact, naturally occurring. Unfortunately it doesn’t occur in
sufficient quantities to be commercially viable for mining. But
technology has come to the rescue by devising a method of
producing high quality crystals.
Our preference for the best alternative to diamonds? Moissanite.
A fine jewelry stone which will make a stunning engagement ring,
or other jewelry piece. And you can buy moissanite wedding
jewelry at a fraction of the price of diamond wedding jewelry.
And when the kids come along, buy them something extra from us
from the money you’ve saved.
Find out more about Moissanite Stones at Peter's website the
Magic of Moissanite, as well as moissanite engagement rings,
moissanite bridal rings and many other types of moissanite rings at
http://www.magic-of-moissanite.com/moissanite-engagement-rings.html
© 2005 Peter Crump.
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