subject: Diamond Engagement Ring [print this page] What are the things diamonds are known for? Diamonds are known for its permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force. Diamond has quite a good story about how it was first used and its importance and symbols in our society. The etymology of the word diamond came from the greek word "adamas"which means insuperable or impossible to surmount. Aside from its, strength diamond is known for its beauty.
Buying a diamond ring jewelry is a big risk especially with the money that you had to invest for a diamond ring jewelry. It takes a lot of courage to buy something that is highly expensive. It is wise to make a very good decision when choosing a diamond ring jewelry. There are so many robbers and fraudulent people who creates fraud jewelries. They may sell and claim that what they have is a diamond ring jewelry and later on you will find out that it is just a piece of another metal coated with a certain diamond color to make it look like a real diamond.
There are certain measures you can do to avoid being fooled by these imitators. A research about diamonds and a good canvass on sellers and prices will give you more options and at the end you may land on the best quality diamond ring one could ever have. Some stores nowadays are given certification as a representation of the kind of jewelries and gemstones they sell to give customers or purchasers about a seller's credibility as a diamond seller.
Here are the basic factors experts consider when examining a piece of diamond:
1. Cut
The cut describes how the diamond is shaped by the maker. There are many diamond shapes to choose from. It is important that these diamonds are equally shaped on all sides and have similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts.
2. Clarity
Clarity in english dictionary means the quality of a certain thing to easily understood. A certain thing can only be easily understood of it is transparent enough and clear as water. Clarity is measured on a level of flaws.
When diamonds were made, it went through different formations until it became a diamond. During the process being formed, a certain object may have caught inside a certain piece diamond and got frozen in it. This certain stuck object makes a diamond flawed.
3. color
Diamonds are transparent. Most jewelers rate diamonds through their color as well. Diamonds however has to be clear or transparent enough or colorless to be more appreciated as it is its natural color.
Diamonds are mostly a subject during light experiments in physics laboratories. They are known for creating rainbow colors when hit by a white light and then refracted in the diamond and then later on comes out releasing a rainbow multiple colors.
4. Carat-weight
The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy or the proportion of diamond in a certain gemstone or simply the weight of a diamond is proportional to its price. The heavier it is, the more expensive.
