How can you tell if a diamond is real ? It includes many factors to tell a diamond is pure. Different types of tests can be carried out to check the quality of a diamond or to check that it is the real one. We explain about the tests to check the quality of a diamond. Slide includes the interesting factors on diamond and provides some tips for buying diamond. Myers Jewelry is the fashion jewelry online in Singapore which gives you the best quality jewels.

1. How Can You Tell If a
Diamond is Real

2. 4 factors called
4C’s determines
whether the
diamond is real
or not.

3. 4C’s are :
• Color
• Clarity
• Cut &
• Carat Weight

4. The Print Test
• Place the diamond over a printing.
• Diamonds will not work as a magnifying glasses and
you can’t see any lines,letters or circles due to the
phenomenon called refraction.
• Diamonds refract so much light.
• The print test is not completely reliable. Depends
on the diamond cut.

5. Testing with Light
• By using small light test can be carried on.
• Place the light towards the stone and see a bright halo
around the rim.
• Real diamonds will never show any rainbow but it shows
typical grey shadows.

6. Breathing Test
• Diamonds are good conductor of heat.
• Breathe on the surface of the stone and check whether it has
fog on its surface.
• You should not be able to see the moisture on a real diamond.
• If you are not sure about the stone, the cmplete thermal
conductivity evaluation done by a jeweler can clarify your doubts
about the quality of diamond.

7. Look Up Close
• Keen observation to the speck, ridge, and facet will let you
identify your gem.
• Diamonds consist of inclusions, which are small bits of
other minerals which is crushed into the stone while the
formation
• So the presence of impurities doesn’t mean a gem is not real

8. Tips for Diamond Buying

9. TIPS
• Some tips can help to prevent you from being pressured to purchase a
gem that turns out to be something other than a diamond. You have to get
something worth for your money you paid.
• Usually Real diamonds will be mount in an setting, which means that you
can see around the rear of the gem and the back surface isn't coated with
any substances like silver. Diamonds can also be broken due to the
inclusions, Do not hit the or crush the stone for testing.
• If the stone looks like the real, Do the the four C's: Carat, Color, Clarity &
Cut.

10. • Inner portion of the stone can degrade its appearance and
stability, while a stone which is not cut properly may fail to
shine to its best advantage.
• Buyers should be aware that these stones are mainly in white,
But they can be pink, yellow, blue, and other colors.
• We can determine the value of a diamond by considering the
size,visual appearance, and faceting

11. Interesting Factors
Jewelers can determine if diamonds are real or fake

12. It is important to know if a diamond is
real before proposing with it.

13. Some fake diamonds are actually quartz.

14. Real diamonds typically cast grayish shadows, not
rainbows, when light is placed on them.

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