The short answer is "yes".
The refraction of diamonds makes them very brilliant - if cut in a very precise way at the proper angles - nothing else like it. A few crystals get close to the ballpark but not quite in it.
Of course manufactured diamonds do just as well as natural ones, with fewer flaws. |
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That's what I suspected, but ...
I don't know if I've ever heard that from someone who wasn't paid by DeBeers. But if it's true, then diamonds in jewelry are still better than a random piece of glass of the same shape. How much better is a good question, but not three months' salary worth.
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Drew |
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Wanna give me an education?
Buzzwords, web pointers I can believe, etc.
If I'm going to go in and make a deal, at least i should know what I'm negotiating for. Keep in mind the setting will obscure it a bit, only the top of the diamond will be seen since there is a white gold collar around the top. |
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go here, this is a respectable outfit
http://gia4cs.gia.ed...54CFQwJswodjmWesQ
but a little like having an MSCIE, different practitioners vary. At least the general stuff is there |
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It still needs to be clear
Light goes in the visible face, bounces around, comes back out different angles and different colors. If you've got an occlusion in the middle, the light stops there and doesn't come back out. That why, unlike opaque stones like opal, you don't need just one good face -- it has to be good all the way through.
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Bloomberg: Gold can't beat interest bearing checking account
- (Another Scott)
- (23)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 08:03:17 AM EST
gold is a safety valve not an inflation hedge
- (boxley)
- (22)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 08:54:35 AM EST
Diamonds are not better.
- (folkert)
- (21)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 09:16:55 AM EST
Already the same as emeralds
- (drook)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 09:38:04 AM EST
yabbut for getting accross borders with currency controls
- (boxley)
- (2)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 11:08:19 AM EST
Bribes seem to be pretty effective. ;-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 11:13:14 AM EST
not really, if you bribe an offical they smell more
- (boxley)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 11:51:44 AM EST
They believe they have a way.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (16)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 12:02:41 PM EST
Exactly.
- (folkert)
- (8)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 01:20:59 PM EST
Diamonds are valuable because they are expensive.
- (mhuber)
- (7)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 08:41:04 PM EST
Naive question
- (drook)
- (6)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 01:32:14 AM EST
The short answer is "yes".
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (4)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 02:40:19 AM EST
That's what I suspected, but ...
- (drook)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 11:12:19 AM EST
Wanna give me an education?
- (crazy)
- (2)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 11:37:43 AM EST
go here, this is a respectable outfit
- (boxley)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 11:44:30 AM EST
It still needs to be clear
- (drook)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 11:48:21 AM EST
Better? Dunno.
- (Another Scott)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 12:48:14 PM EST
Latest advertising suggests they're playing on perception.
- (static)
- (6)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 05:35:50 PM EST
When the opposite is more likely true.
-NT
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Dec. 7, 2009, 09:53:57 PM EST
I'll be buying one today
- (crazy)
- (4)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 04:00:45 AM EST
Just make sure...
- (folkert)
- (2)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 04:07:50 AM EST
Clueless
- (crazy)
- (1)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 07:12:24 AM EST
Something like...
- (folkert)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 01:33:59 PM EST
Congrats!
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- Dec. 8, 2009, 07:16:00 AM EST
