subject: Choosing Authentic Diamond From Fake One [print this page] Whether you are trying to buy the perfect gift to someone special or just to yourself, guarantying the quality or how authentic the gift is, must be our first priority. Choosing a good gift, what ever it may be, starts from how meticulous you are with the object chosen. We can verify some of it with just common sense or on how keen and observant we are to things. Some however, needs an expert of the matter so as to make sure its authentic. Diamond is no exception to it. But this would cost us something. There are some methods being used by others though in determining which is which. These methods helps us in how we should do it ourselves. Here are some of the tips that should help in taking these matters into our own hands and catch a fraud on the spot.
Turn the diamond upside down and place it on a piece of newspaper. If you can read the print through the stone or even see distorted black smudges, then it probably isn't a diamond.
If the diamond is mounted, you should not be able to see the bottom of a diamond looking directly from the top.
Draw a small dot with a pen on a piece of white paper. Place your unmounted diamond over the center of the dot. Look directly down on it and if your stone is not a diamond, you will see a circular reflection in the stone.
Observe the reflections. A real diamond's reflections usually manifest in various shades of gray. If you see rainbow reflections, you're either dealing with a low-quality diamond or a fake.
Use the fog test: Put the stone in front of your mouth and fog it like you would a mirror. If it stays fogged for a couple seconds, it's probably a fake. A real diamond disperses the heat instantaneously so by the time you look at it, it has already cleared up, or if it happens to be a little dirty, it still clears much faster than a fake. Use a stone you know is real next to the suspect stone and fog both. You can watch how the real one stays clear while the fake one fogs over, plus if you breath on them repeatedly, you will see condensation start to build up on the fake, it fogs more with with each puff, while the real one is still clean and clear.
Put the stone under a UV light. Many (but not all) diamonds will exhibit blue fluorescence under an ultra violet or black light, so the presence of a medium to strong blue confirms that it is real. The absence of blue, however, does not mean it is fake; it could simply be a better quality diamond. If you see a very slight green, yellow, or gray fluorescence under ultraviolet light, it may be Moissanite.
Over all, those techniques can actually help us determining authentic and inauthentic diamonds from fake ones especially when choosing diamond rings. However, those processes need not be necessary. We can really tell if a thing is real or not. If it is too good to be true, might be, it the fake one. Sometimes, we are over shadowed with things that are already within our grasp.
