2010年7月29日星期四

Cubic zirconia jewelry is beautiful in its own right.

Most cubic zirconia are created flawless unlike natural diamonds that have imperfection and impurity, although now they are available with man made imperfections which makes it harder to distinguish from a real natural diamond. Also manufactures have developed ways of improving a cubic zirconia by coating the stone with a film of diamond-like carbon (DLC) resulting in a harder, more lustrous stone, due to the high percentage of diamond bonds within the (DLC), the finished cubic zirconia will be very difficult to distinguish from a real natural diamond.The days of cubic zirconia being a cheap diamond substitute has long gone and it has become a beautiful stone in its own right. Today many top jewelry designers are using cubic zirconia as a favorite to make beautiful jewelry, at a affordable price.It was first discovered by two German Mineralogist in 1937, it was not until the 1980 that cubic zirconia took off commercially when it went into mass production for the retail market.To the untrained eye it is very hard to tell the difference between a cubic zirconia and a natural diamond however a cubic zirconia can be seen to have a slightly less brilliance than a natural diamond and seem to have more fire than a natural diamond, the difference is very slight and even for someone with a trained eye they can be wrong at times.