Buying Jewelry For Your Business Part 3 Buying Gemstone Jewelry

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Gemstone treatments or enhancements refer torepparttar way some gems are treated to improve their appearance or durability, or even change their color. Many gemstones are treated in some way. The effects of some treatments may lessen or change over time and some treated stones may require special care. Some enhancements also affectrepparttar 150757 value of a stone, when measured against a comparable untreated stone.

Jewelers should tell you whetherrepparttar 150758 gemstone you’re considering has been treated when:repparttar 150759 treatment is not permanent;repparttar 150760 treated stone requires special care; orrepparttar 150761 treatment significantly affectsrepparttar 150762 value ofrepparttar 150763 gemstone.

Some common treatments that you may be told about and their effects include: • Heating can lighten, darken or changerepparttar 150764 color of some gems, or improve a gemstone’s clarity. • Irradiation can add more color to colored diamonds, certain other gemstones and pearls. • Impregnating some gems with colorless oils, wax or resins makes a variety of imperfections less visible and can improverepparttar 150765 gemstones’ clarity and appearance. • Fracture filling hides cracks or fractures in gems by injecting colorless plastic or glass intorepparttar 150766 cracks and improvesrepparttar 150767 gemstones’ appearance and durability. • Diffusion treatment adds color torepparttar 150768 surface of colorless gems;repparttar 150769 center ofrepparttar 150770 stone remains colorless. • Dyeing adds color and improves color uniformity in some gemstones and pearls. • Bleaching lightens and whitens some gems, including jade and pearls.



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Buying Jewelry For Your Business Part 5 Buying Diamond Jewelry

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Another treatment - lasering - involvesrepparttar use of a laser beam to improverepparttar 150756 appearance of diamonds that have black inclusions or pots. A laser beam is aimed atrepparttar 150757 inclusion. Acid is then forced through a tiny tunnel made byrepparttar 150758 laser beam to removerepparttar 150759 inclusion. Lasering is permanent and a laser-drilled stone does not require special care.

While a laser-drilled diamond may appear as beautiful as a comparable untreated stone, it may not be as valuable. That’s because an untreated stone ofrepparttar 150760 same quality is rarer and therefore more valuable. Jewelers should tell you whetherrepparttar 150761 diamond you’re considering has been laser-drilled.

Imitation diamonds, such as cubic zirconia, resemble diamonds in appearance but are much less costly. Certain laboratory created gemstones, such as lab-created moissanite, also resemble diamonds and may not be adequately detected byrepparttar 150762 instruments originally used to identify cubic zirconia. Ask your jeweler if he hasrepparttar 150763 current testing equipment to distinguish between diamonds and other lab-created stones. A diamond’s value is based on four criteria: color, cut, clarity, and carat. The clarity and color of a diamond usually are graded. However, scales are not uniform: a clarity grade of “slightly included” may represent a different grade on one grading system versus another, depending onrepparttar 150764 terms used inrepparttar 150765 scale. Make sure you know how a particular scale and grade representrepparttar 150766 color or clarity ofrepparttar 150767 diamond you’re considering. A diamond can be described as “flawless” only if it has no visible surface or internal imperfections when viewed under 10-power magnification by a skilled diamond grader.

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