How to recognize if a diamond is real. Fake diamonds, detect online

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How to recognize if a diamond is real. Detect fake polished + rough diamonds. Free tests online. Difference, distinct real, original, recognize false, simulants, imitations, moissanite, counterfeit CZ, zircons, cultured, treated, synthetic, crystal, glass + others.tricks Protect against fraud

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Find out the difference between fake, imitations simulants, Moissanite, CZ, zircons, white sapphire, cultured, treated, synthetic, crystals, coated, glass, DLC coated CZ + other fake stones from a real, original diamond. Two most common simulates are Cubic Zircon, CZ and Moissanite.

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Weight:

Each mineral and synthetic stone has its specific weight and polished / rough diamonds has too! Don’t confuse size and weight!

Simply know the specific weight of polished and rough, uncut diamonds here to distinct simulants, moissanite, CZ, zircons, cultured, synthetic and other fake stones from real diamonds. View Specific Gravity

Example: a CZ Zircon weights about 1.31 Carats or about 55% more than a diamond for the same size.

a Moissanite of 6.5 mm (One carat size) round brilliant, weights approximately 0.87 carats.

Compare the stone to a real diamond: Use a carat or gram scale.

Transparence:

Put a line on a paper or take a printed paper. Place the stone upside down over the line or over the printed paper.

If the stone shows any sign of the line or of the printed text through, it is fake.

If the diamond is mounted, place it upside down on a piece of printed paper. If you can read through the print

or even see smudges, then it is probably not a diamond. You should not be able to see the bottom, looking directly

from the top Diamonds have a high refractive index. You cannot see through.

Steam:

Bring the stone in your mouth, exhale to procreate vapor. If the stone stays more than 3 seconds "foggy" it is probably a simulant.

Hardness:

If the stone shows abraded facet lines, magnified by loupe x 10 it is not a diamond. Take a piece of sandpaper barn the stone. If it is damaged it is a fake! "Scratch tests" on glass, metal, stones. Diamond will cut and scratch everything. Fake will not. Remember that diamond is the hardest material that exist!

Fake, imitation of Rough, Uncut diamonds are generally crystals coated with diamond powder application on surface by nano technology. Fake rough and polished will be scattered on cutting wheel. Also easily interceptable in a diamond lab and by professionals

Clarity - Inclusions:

Inclusions in diamonds do help to be sure that it is a real diamond. internal and external flaws are a fingerprint, not two diamonds have exact the same characteristics.

Price:

"Cheap Diamonds" a 50% off the price for a diamond don’t exist! If the comparative price seems to good to be true, it is not good!

You can find them mostly by fraudulent sellers on Internet Auctions, online seller shops and stores.

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Certification: Detect real from fake / false diamond certificates - switched diamonds

HRD, Diamond High Council and IGI from Antwerp World Diamond Center, delivers always genuine certificates with sealed diamond in a transparent secured case. GIA do deliver diamonds loose in a parcel paper; easy to switch the diamond!

Verify if the Diamond Certificate is the original - How to avoid fake / false Diamond Certificates:

HRD Antwerp-Diamond Lab and IGI have a new diamond certificate that features enhanced security measures, a refined cut grade and is able to be retrieved and downloaded online. The HRD Antwerp Certificate Link allows all HRD Antwerp diamond certificates, diamond-identification reports and diamond-color certificates issued after Jan. 1, 2005, to be retrieved online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

To access the certificate link, visit HRD Certificate Link: www.hrdantwerplink.be

IGI gives the same Online Data Retrieval

Check and track real diamond certificate online: HRD Certificate Link: www.hrdantwerplink.be

IGI Online Data Retrieval:: www.igiworldwide.com/IGI_ONLINE/Client

GIA Report: www.gia.edu/reportcheck

HRD and IGI do seal the certified diamond in a transparent secured case to avoid switched diamonds!.

When the seal is broken the text "broken seal" will be visible on the backside of the secured case!

That do not mean that the diamond is a fake but that you do not have any guaranty about the

quality of the diamond or eventualy a fake in the broken secured case. View image of broken seal:

Laser inscribed diamonds

Laser inscribed diamonds showing the name of the Diamond Laboratorie such as HRD, IGI, GIA and the number of the certificate is most safely! (The difference between a natural and treated, HPHT and synthetic diamonds is only detectable by Diamond labs.)

Buyback guarantee:

Ask for a real written buyback guarantee!

Trust:

Buy at reliable Diamond Companies at the source

HP HT Pocessed / Treated diamonds:

Detect HP HT processed / treated diamonds

Important notice!

Outsiders and non-professional diamantaires please be wise and resist the temptation of purchasing a rough diamond.

It requires many years of experience to valuate the stone.

And an expensive Sarin equipment to estimate the yield from rough. Too many ignorent buyers have bought nice pieces of glass!

Diamond Testers: How reliable are they?

Read all about electronic testing Instrumens for polished + rough / uncut diamonds and Gold explained and tested.

Warning about bad shopping experience!

Some general advice:

Like any major diamond city NY, Dubai and Antwerp also has its 'tourist trap' and mass jewelry stores, also open on weekend.

Avoid buying in the streets around the Central Sation, the Appelmansstraat, Vestingstraat, Keyserlei and Pelikaanstraat;

so you'd better make sure you visit only official Antwerp Diamond Exchange (bourse) registered diamantairs, if in doubt ask for a their registration-member number.

To smart people think they can buy cheapest in the street at shops. "tourist trap"

Read this uncensored life bad shopping experience of a tourist:

Dear,

I visited to your town last May and bought a diamond at a shop in Antwerpen.

The shop's name was the 'Royalty Jewellery & Diamond' and was just in front of the Antwerpen central station.

The price was 500 EUR but the shop cut the VISA card at the price of 5,000 EUR!

The shop cheated me. Scam!

After that, the diamond was revealed as a fake.

I asked to exam the stone at my company's test labo,

The 'VISA company' didn't help me any more although the act was exact.

I guess that all the Antwerpen diamond shops are doing like that acts in all around the town accompany with VISA company, so, I are going to open this in 'Twitter' and 'Facebook' from now on again and again and I are going to appeal it persistently.

Are you ok for you? 'All the Antwerpen diamond shops are dealing the fake diamonds usually...

Don't buy a diamond in Antwerpen shops. Diamond is a fake'

I believe that my note will affect your town's bad reputation.

The shop's name was the 'Royalty Jewellery & Diamond' and was just in front of the Antwerpen central station.

Address is 'De Keyserlei 2018 Antwerpen'.

Although I have been contacting with them for a long time, they don't reply me yet.

I reported a report to your police station via the government sightseeing station, but the police station asked me to visit the office by myself again. I don't have money to visit to your town again at present. I just inquire you that like this bad behavior are done usually in your town?

How can we chaeck a diamond if a real one or not at the shop? Please discuss this fact with your town's diamond shops' committee.

The cc adress is the shop's opened e-mail one, but I have not been replied from them yet via this address. Their web site's information was also fake.... The tell number only is exact at present. +32(0)3-203 00 44 Very bad clarks will go on the phone.

Tsuneo Maruyama, Japan Email: t-maruya@mx2.nisiq.net

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How to recognize, to tell if a diamond is real - detect fake, differentiate, distinct, recognize false, imitations, simulants from real polished and rough, raw, uncut diamonds from counterfeit - Free test online

Avoid fake diamond certificates - detect fake, false, imitations and simulants. Selling counterfeit, imitation is fraudulent and illegal!

We recommend performing several easy tests, for free, without any traditional diamond tester, to detect the difference between fake and real polished,

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