subject: How To Identify Ruby Natural Or Man-made [print this page] There are two kinds of ruby in the world, man-made and natural.If we want to buy ruby,How to identify ruby is natural or man-made? In the world,90% Natural Stone have defective, The flawless natural ruby that have no crack is extremely rare.
But the synthetic ruby Always perfect free from defects.And it often large.As precious stones, more than 3 carat of natural rubies are very rare, if you encountered a large ruby, it is necessary to attract attention, because natural ruby more expensive than man-made ruby.A slight negligence,you may cause great losses.
Natural rubies have a stronger "dichroism", the so-called dichroism, it is look from different directions to see if the red and orange-red two colors, such as only one color, it may be red spinel, garnet or red glass and so on.
Natural red spinel and ruby are very similar, the two most easily confused, it must be particularly careful when you buy ruby.
