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What is Moissanite?

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Choosing the Metal Around a Moissanite

The cheapest way to change how a moissanite behaves isn't the stone — and it's decided at the start of every order...

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The cheapest way to change how a moissanite behaves isn't the stone — and it's decided at the start of every order...

Almost everything written about moissanite is written by people selling it. Here is the other half, which is shorter and more useful.

With diamond a report gives you an anchor. Moissanite has none — which turns the price question into a specification question.

A good plan with one requirement that's easy to miss and impossible to fix afterwards — and it isn't about the stone.

Rarely really a question about gemmology — and almost all the awkwardness comes from one framing error that costs nothing to drop.

No laboratory grades moissanite, so grade claims are not comparable between sellers. Six things you can ask anyone that cannot be faked,...

Comparing diamonds is paperwork; comparing moissanite isn't, because the paperwork doesn't exist. The method that replaces it.

Where most of the stones in a piece actually are, and where the moissanite decision is easiest — because nothing this small...

Moissanite photographs differently from diamond for a specific optical reason — and the settings that flatter it are the opposite of the...

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