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Diamond

The ultimate gemstone and one of the most widely traded jewelry products worldwide.

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Growth lines

Jewelry; Diamond

These can be considered internal flaws, and can often be seen only by rotating the diamond very slowly. They can appear and disappear almost instantaneously. They appear as small lines or planes ...

Diamond

Jewelry; Diamond

A diamond is the hardest known natural substance. It is crystallised carbon. Diamonds are mined in rough form and then cut and polished to reveal their brilliance.

Facets

Jewelry; Diamond

These are tiny surfaces polished onto a rough diamond that give a finished diamond its shape. The way light interacts with these facets affects a diamond's brilliance and sparkle.

Marquise shape

Jewelry; Diamond

A boat-shaped diamond that is long and thin with gently curved sides that come to a point on either end. Marquise is part of the brilliant-cut family.

Girdle fringes

Jewelry; Diamond

Stress hair-like lines or cracks that can develop around the girdle during the cutting or polishing process. The bearding or girdle fringe can sometimes be removed, if not too dramatic, with slight ...

Brilliance

Jewelry; Diamond

Liveliness, or sparkle in a stone when light is reflected from the surface and from the total internal reflection of light.

Flat-top setting

Jewelry; Diamond

Like the Gypsy setting, this setting has a band that is one continuous piece that gets thicker at the top. A flat-top setting grows broader at the top so that a faceted stone can be inserted into ...

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