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what is the difference from a diamond ring and a lab created sapphire ring?
Byalso is a lab created sapphire ring comparable to a diamond ring and what are the major differences and if you could please offer a website you found the information on or suggest looking into to find the answer
5 Comments
January 26th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Ones the real thing (God’s creation) and the other is “man”ufactured.
January 26th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Well one’s a diamond and one’s a sapphire. Sapphires are a softer stone than diamond, which on a scale of 1-10 is the only 10. Real diamonds have a range of colors, which are very slight. They may have inclusions, which are characteristic of a real diamond. Lab Created Sapphires will not be as expensive, you can get much larger sizes for not much money, they are usually ‘perfect’ meaning they dont have any natural inclusions. In general, sapphires are cheaper than diamonds, natural or manmade.
January 26th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
one’s pretty and one is ugly.
please answer:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmTKN3OaOU5EXpw1rcYwfQrsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080512190043AAnECJW
January 26th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
A diamond ring will be much much more valuable than a synthetic sapphire ring.
January 26th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
First clarify the terms:
Diamond is the hardest natural material to be found on earth, and the simplest of all gemstones in composition. When you are buying a ring be sure that its a natural diamond.
Synthetic diamond is one which is made by man, imitating the same conditions that were found in nature millions of years ago. In simple tersm synthetic( lab created) are man made diamonds.. It has far less value than its natural counterpart
Lab created sapphire are same. its man made sapphire and is almost 1/100 th the cost of natural sapphire. So my advice dont go for a lab created ring if you can afford a natural. Remember the chemical compostion of both the natural and synthetic are same. only difference is the way they are formed and in the price.
for diamonds : http://www.gehnabazaar.com/diamond_intro.php
for sapphire http://www.gehnabazaar.com/gemstone_details_1.php?GID=31