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Diamonds is one of the four suits found in playing cards. In Bridge, it ranks third highest of the four suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades), above Clubs, but below Hearts. It is typically associated with wealth or riches.
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How Are Diamonds Made
Have You Ever Wondered How Are Diamonds Made?Simply put, a diamond is a refractive crystalline form of carbon that is extremely hard. As carbon naturally crystallizes hundreds Read more...
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Lab Created Diamonds
Lab Created Stir Up Controversy
Lab created diamonds are simply that have been grown in a laboratory. They are chemically identical to naturally mined diamonds, but cannot be sold as such. Lab created are less expensive than natural diamonds, making beautiful jewelry affordable to the masses.
Carbon is Carbon
The controversy associated with lab created diamonds arose when a diamond company brought some of their homemade gemstones to rating house. The house was used to assessing the value of mined and the created slid right under their radar. Upset that they had graded lab created as if they were mined diamonds, the grading company began to make waves in the world of gemstones. They insisted that lab created should not be classed in the same way as natural diamonds. They took the position that doing so was fraudulent. Opponents of their position felt that were whether they were mined or made in a lab because both types were the results of heat and pressure applied to carbon.
The controversy settled down somewhat when the leading maker of lab created decided they wanted to have a full disclosure
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policy on all of their stones. Not wanting to be accused of trying to pass off any of their lab created as gems pulled from the surface of the earth, they now laser inscribe each stone that they create.
Lab Created With A Twist
Most lab created are made from graphite, but a few companies are making from carbon found in less traditional places. One Russian company is making a diamond from human or animal hair. The most popular they sell are created from the hair of newborn babies. Families that want a unique keepsake or gift for grandma are lining up to have their personalized created to the tune of $3500. A yellow diamond can run as high as $17,000, but you can be sure if you buy one of these lab created it will be as unique as your child. The company also makes from the fur of your favorite pet.
Some companies have taken this idea a step beyond making out of hair and offer to make from the cremated ashes of your loved one. They advertise these as a way to memorialize and remember the person that you lost. These lab created can be made in several colors and sizes and then can be set in rings or necklaces.
Colored Diamonds
The Differences between Colored DiamondsDifferent colored diamonds are valued differently. Generally, the clearer the diamond the more expensive it is. Diamonds Read more...
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Synthetic Diamonds
Facts about Synthetic DiamondsSynthetic diamonds are considered to be fakes although they are molecularly identical to diamonds that occur naturally. Synthetic Read more...
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Sierra Leone Diamonds
Sierra Leone Diamonds: How Conflict Diamonds Brought Both Joy And Pain To AfricaWhen the first Sierra Leone diamond was found in 1930, the people of Africa Read more...
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Fake Diamonds
Enter The New World Of Fake DiamondsThere was a day when fake diamonds screamed out glaringly that they were fake. A few years ago you could stroll by a woman Read more...
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