Tuesday 23 November 2010

What You Must Know When Purchasing a Diamond Engagement Ring

Diamonds are one of the precious and most expensive stones and hence you must be very careful while you are purchasing your ring. There are many fake stores which sell fake diamonds and this is the reason that you must buy your ring from the reputed store. Apart from finding the reputed store there are some parameters which you must check before purchasing your diamond engagement ring. You must check the 4C'S of diamond and you must also check the shine and brilliance of diamond. You must also consider the rays of light and how they reflect the surface. It is essential to check all these parameters because there are few engagement rings which look like diamond but they are not diamond in real

By having the basic understanding of diamond you can easily find a high quality of diamond engagement ring. Diamonds are extracted from the ground and are made of carbon but you must keep in mind that they are not used in their original shape in jewellery. They are cut in different shapes such as round, oval, heart, pear, marquise and emerald to enhance their brilliance and beauty. But before selecting your cut you must always remember that the more the ideal the cut is the value of your diamond will be higher

Before selecting your diamond engagement ring you must consider the 4C'S of diamond. The 4C'S of diamonds include cut, color, carat and clarity and it is used by the jewellers to grade diamonds

Cut of diamond refers to the brilliance of diamond and if your diamond has not ideal cut then you can see the change in brilliance of diamond. You can also use deep, shallow and fine cut for your engagement ring

Color of diamond is used to identify diamond on the basis of absence or presence of color. The grading criteria of diamond color includes tint yellow, light yellow, faint yellow, colorless and near colorless. Always remember that colorless diamond has more value. But near colorless diamond can reflect light brilliantly and are also very beautiful but they are less valuable compare to colorless diamond

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Carat is another important consideration. Carat refers to the weight of diamond and it is measured in carat. And you must check the carat of all the diamonds set on your engagement ring before purchasing your ring. Always remember that larger diamonds have more value compare to smaller ones because they are rare

Clarity of diamonds refers to the inclusions or flaws which diamonds contain especially genuine diamonds. And the visibility and size of these inclusions determine the clarity of diamond in your engagement rings. But you must keep in mind that these inclusions are not seen by the naked eye and the jewellers use a special tool which is known as louse to see these inclusions. The grade of clarity includes internally flawless and flawless

Another C which is used in grading criteria of diamonds is certificates. Certificate is a grading report which list down the feature of genuine diamond. Always remember that a diamond without certificate is not genuine

Generally include jewelry, natural jade jewelry (natural stones, natural jade, natural and organic gems) artificial stones (man-made gems, recycling precious stones, mosaic stones, synthetic stones) there are precious metal jewelry: gold, silver, platinum and "beauty", that is gorgeous crystal, dazzling. Gem if not the United States can not be precious stones, this beauty or performance for the brilliant colors, or performance is transparent and clean, or with a special optical effects (such as cat's eye, change color, luminous and so on), or a special pattern ( such as the chrysanthemum stone, agate, jade plum, etc.). Jewelry is a decorative ornaments, precious stones on it are mostly set in precious metals or semi-precious stones on. Traced back to human prehistory, there will take the animal teeth, shells and other objects used for decoration. With the development of human society, jewelry, accessories, uses a more evolved from the religious, strategic and social class of symbolic objects.


Jewellery - Categories

Generalized classification of precious stones
So, the broad stones which also includes things? It includes inorganic and organic gem stones into two categories.

Inorganic natural gems and synthetic gems gemstone points. Natural gemstone natural geological processes that formed the gems, they are from a single mineral crystals or by the number of single, complex mineral composition of rocks gathered together, such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, peridot, crystal (single minerals) and Jade, She too Tsui, soft too (rock), etc.; artificial gemstones, including synthetic and imitation gemstones (also known as imitation precious stones). Department of Synthetic gem of a natural gem that people in accordance with the chemical composition, the formation of physical and chemical conditions in the laboratory or the factory synthesized "inorganic gem", and their physical and chemical properties of the same or similar natural stones, such as the artificial Diamond, synthetic ruby, synthetic crystal, etc.; fake gems refers to a similar look with some plastic, glass and other products, or inorganic compounds, their physical and chemical properties similar to natural stones with no fixed non-contact. Such items are: imitation diamond cubic zirconia (the so-called "Soviet drilling"), the plastic imitation pearls, imitation jade green glass.

Organic gems that his role in the formation and biological or biotechnology-related gems, such as coral, pearls, amber and so on.
Narrow classification of precious stones
What do you mean gems and narrow it? It specifically refers to those posed by a single mineral crystal gems, such as diamonds, red (blue) gems, peridot, crystal, etc.; many single, complex mineral composition of the rock is classified as jade stones range; professional name for people to use more of these : precious stones, jade, or collectively, the "gem", which derived from the "Gems learning" the discipline name.

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