Wedding set

[somegroovychick]

Re: Wedding set

@adrasteia

Created stones like sapphires, rubies etc donot have the same face value as naturally occuring stones.

Thats why they are cheaper (im not saying cheap) than the natural ones.

They look the same, have the same physical properties but are not as expensive as their natural buddies because no hard labor has gone in creating 'em.

Finding stones is not easy, they dont grow on trees. The main reason why they are so expensive are because its a back breaking process of fossicking for them.

With created stones there is also an advantage of having color variety, like created pink sapphires.

However it would be wrong to say that both are the same, natural occuring minerals form after years and years of earth shifting, heat, volcanoes and what not.

Lab created ones donot.

i suppose my point was, if people are content to wear silver sets “washed” in 22K gold “pani”, as opposed to actual 22K gold, then fussing about a ruby that is lab created and, to the non-gemologist is actually the same as a real, mined ruby, is a bit ridiculous. more than a bit ridiculous, in fact.

only a trained gemologist can tell the difference between a mined stone and a lab-created stone. and most people are not trained gemologists.

“Synthetic rubies (lab-created) are real rubies as far as their chemical properties are concerned. Because they are made in a laboratory instead of by nature, they are not considered natural…
Another method is the flux-growth process. This process takes much longer and can produce rubies that are difficult to distinguish from natural rubies. The ingredients are melted into a flux (molten chemical) and are then crystallized under restricted conditions. This process may take many months to complete.”
http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/students/hess/

also LOL but is “fossicking” a real word?