• @executive_chicken
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    691 year ago

    Look up moissanite. It’s literally the cheaper, superior diamond. The fact that it exists just goes to show how inflated the diamond market is

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      261 year ago

      Saw a story about a wedding ring where instead of a diamond the ring was jeweled with the couple’s birth stones fit together into the shape of a heart, which honestly I think is WAY better and probably WAY cheaper too.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      Moissanite is chemically different to diamond (SiC vs C), has a different crystal structure, and is less hard. You can also get actual lab-grown diamond, but they are quite expensive. But you probabaly won’t be able to tell the difference anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 year ago

        But also, who cares that it’s less hard? I’m not using it for a drill bit, it’s a cosmetic piece. Literally it’s only function is visual. And moissanite is superior. All the visual markers that are used for beauty in a diamond it surpasses. And some quick googling I did to confirm that also showed me that diamond is only barely harder (“With a hardness of 9.25, moissanite is the second-hardest material used a gemstone.” a diamond is a 10.) and it turns out, less likely to break in some cases. “Moissanite doesn’t have a cleavage plane, while diamond does. (This is an internal plane along which a diamond crystal can easily split)” So if you hit a diamond in the wrong spot, it can still crack. Moissanite does not have a weak spot.

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        • @Chunk
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          51 year ago

          It’s very important to me that my gemstone only has carbon. If it has silicon I’m going to get very upset. Silicon interferes with your inner flow and can have harmful ions.

          • my crystal wearing, hippy Grandma.
      • @hperrin
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        1 year ago

        Usually you can tell the difference. Lab grown diamond is pure while rock grown diamond is imperfect.

        But you have to look at it under a magnifying glass to tell, and know what you’re looking for.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      21 year ago

      A strategy that has been working well for me is “Never buy jewelry of any kind ever because it’s completely pointless.”

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        21 year ago

        Don’t hang around people who demand you consume in order to get their approval. They are empty people who will not support you.

      • @Sami_Uso
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        11 year ago

        Everything can be pointless when it comes down to it. I never ever wore jewelry but when I got married we got really nice matching plain bands and now I never take it off and quite like how it looks, it’s not pointless to me.