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What is Moissanite?

Guides, stories, and answers about lab-grown diamonds, moissanite, and fine jewellery — written by our atelier.

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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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At three carats and up the saving is largest and the difference most visible. How the two price curves diverge, how to...

Cubic zirconia does not cloud. Quartz in ordinary household dust abrades its surface until facet edges round and light scatters. The mechanism,...

Mohs 9.25 against dust at Mohs 7 means everyday wear cannot mark it. Why CZ clouds and moissanite doesn't, and the three...

Moissanite fire scales with stone size, so a large stone is louder than a small one. Six levers that control how much...

Four carats is where moissanite stops being a quiet substitute. Real millimetres by shape, why a large moissanite is a less convincing...

D-E-F and G-H-I are borrowed from a diamond scale and assigned by sellers, not labs. When the higher band is worth paying...

On an oval this comparison is decided by size. Dispersion, density and diamond equivalent weight explained, plus where each material genuinely wins.

By eye it depends on size; with a loupe it takes five seconds. How the doubling test works, why thermal testers fail,...

Moissanite is chemically inert and cannot mark skin. The green comes from copper in the metal alloy — which metals do it,...

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