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2. Diamond simulant - Wikipedia

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   Cubic zirconia can be coated with diamond-like carbon to improve its durability, but will still be detected as CZ by a thermal probe. CZ had virtually no competition until the 1998 introduction of moissanite (SiC; silicon carbide). Moissanite is superior to cubic zirconia in two ways: its hardness (8.5–9.25) and low SG (3.2).

3. Moissanite - Wikipedia

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   Moissanite was introduced to the jewelry market as a diamond alternative in 1998 after Charles & Colvard (formerly known as C3 Inc.) received patents to create and market lab-grown silicon carbide gemstones, becoming the first firm to do so. By 2018 all patents on the original process world-wide had expired.

4. Cubic zirconia - Wikipedia

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   Cut: Cubic zirconia gemstones can be cut differently than diamonds: The facet edges can be rounded or "smooth". Color: only the rarest of diamonds are truly colorless, most having a tinge of yellow or brown to some extent. A cubic zirconia is often entirely colorless: equivalent to a perfect "D" on diamond's color grading scale. That said ...

5. How 2023 became the year of the lab-grown diamond - AOL

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   Lab-grown stones have erased some of those distinctions. First developed in the 1980s, they are produced by exposing pure carbon to a large amount of heat and pressure in a metal cube, eventually ...

6. What Are the Key Differences Between Lab-Grown and Natural ...

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   What’s a lab-grown diamond? “Lab-grown diamonds are created in state-of-the-art laboratories, rather than being mined from the earth,” says Pahlajani. “They undergo the exact same process ...

7. The love for lab-grown diamonds - AOL

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   De Beers tried its hand at growing a lab-grown diamond jewelry business for six years before ditching it earlier this year. But a segment of that failed attempt has flourished—and it has nothing ...