Is Moissanite Worth Buying

Hmois-Is Moissanite Worth Buying

Recently, many people's circle of friends has emerged a kind of "Mozambique diamond" thing. Fire color

good, beautiful, looks high, the price is only one-tenth of diamond, so many women love. In fact, the

Mozambique drill is moissanite.

1. Who the hell is moissanite?

2. How valuable is it?

3. What's the difference with diamonds?

1. Who the hell is moissanite?

In the early 20th century, the French chemist Henry Morsan discovered the mineral in a crater, and the new gem was named after Morsan. It is said that Natural Mozambique stone can only be found in extreme circumstances, even in diamond inclusions, production is very rare. For many years, Moissanite was primarily used as an Abrasive, but later it was also used in electronics, such as light-emitting Diode, but not for jewelry. Later, American companies made synthetic MOISSANITE and took it to international markets, where it was highly sought after. At present, the MOISSANITE that is commonly on the market is almost all made in China, the United States and India.

2. How valuable is it?

From the current market price, the price of ordinary diamonds is based on the quality of diamonds, the market price of a carat weight of diamonds is about 10,000 to 30,000 yuan, specific prices will also be based on the day's diamond quotes to determine. A carat OF mossanite sells for a tenth of the price of a regular diamond.

3. What's the difference with diamonds?

Moissanite may look like a diamond, but there's a big difference.

According to reports, Mozambique Stone's internal structure, numerical value, appearance is very similar to diamonds, even with the general thermal conductivity instrument to detect, will also be judged as natural diamonds, ordinary consumers are difficult to distinguish. But experts say that even if they look like Moissanite, they are not the same as natural diamonds. For example, diamonds are made of carbon and Mozambique diamonds are made of Silicon Carbide; Moissanite is lighter than diamonds; Moissanite is harder than diamonds, diamond has a mohs hardness of 10, and Moissanite is 9.25; Most of the moissanite that has been cut has blunt edges, quite unlike a diamond with sharp edges; and so on.