Diamonds are a girl’s best friend; but how does a girl tell if a diamond or any gemstone as a matter of fact is real?
Not all genuine gemstones are natural gemstones. A genuine gemstone can be a stone that has been treated to enhance its appearance and, therefore, to make it more sellable.

On the other hand, a synthetic gemstone is something created in a laboratory rather than taken from a gemstone mine. The process in which a gemstone is formed naturally is duplicated and used to mass produce gems. Sometimes, synthetic gemstones are also called genuine, but only because they have the same physical composition as natural gemstones.

When shopping for jewelry, we should be careful because modern technology has made it somewhat hard to tell whether a gemstone is natural, genuine or synthetic. This is why it is very important to buy jewelry only from a reputed jeweler, someone you can trust absolutely. Feel free to ask for details and documentation on the makeup and origin of the gemstone you are thinking of buying before you actually purchase it. This is most especially true for natural gemstones, which are rare and often very expensive.

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Platinum engagement rings, and platinum diamond rings, have taken the market by storm due to the fact that the sheen or patina of the metal does a better job than gold of highlighting/contrasting the beauty of the set diamonds. The platinum metal is part of a group of six metals including; platinum, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, and osmium. These metals are all extremely similar to platinum in their chemistry, density, and weight. As a matter of fact, they are often difficult to distinguish from each other. Platinum jewelry is also unique in that it is the only metal that is of 90% to 95% purity.

Gold in its purest form is an extremely soft and pliable metal. Because it is so soft and malleable it cannot be used in jewelry since it would disfigure with normal wear. Because of this problem jewelers resort to an alloyed gold known as karat gold (different from “carat” measurement used to characterize diamond weight) Adding alloys to the gold will make the metal tougher and harder so that it may be used in jewelry applications. It will also result in different colors depending on the different combinations used. White gold contains approximately 10-20% nickel, with combinations of platinum, zinc, copper, and palladium. This combination makes white gold a tougher metal than yellow gold. The amount of gold in any given combination is described by karat number.

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