Essential Information For Choosing Colored Diamonds
A Buyers Guide To Colored Diamonds
Treating Diamond To Enhance Color
A lot of people are starting to favor the fancy, intense tinted gems over the classic clear, or white-colored, diamonds. Quite a few gemstones are discovered in their natural colors when they are mined, many others can be colored by gemologists and jewelers by carrying out a specialized procedure. As a way to make sure they are less expensive for the average consumer, specialists have started synthetically treating gems of lower grades in order to take a less appealing yellow or brownish tinted diamond and turn it into a beautiful, brightly colored diamond.
Colored diamonds can usually be treated by the practice known as irradiation, which uses a high thermal program to alter the color of a precious stone. Other diamonds are treated by simply painting them.
The Natural Range of Fancy Color
While many precious gems are usually inspected and valued depending on their clear attributes, there are people who favor the fancy hued diamonds which appear in dramatic hues of green, yellow, red, pinks along with all the different colorings in between.
Some colored diamonds are that way naturally. If a diamond has nitrogen in it, it often has a yellow tint to the stone. Sometimes, exposure to natural radiation causes stones to appear quite green..
Other colored diamonds which have been treated to obtain their color allows people with lower budgets to purchase the fancy colored diamonds. Specialist jewelers have found means to alter a gemstones color to almost any strength of shade that is desired.The grading process for colored diamonds is slightly different than that of the transparent diamond. First of all, a colored diamond is graded based on the primary hue, the blue or pink or red color that makes up the majority of the diamonds color. Secondarily, the intensity of that particular color range is graded on a scale. The more intense the colorisation of a natural diamond, the more rare and thus more expensive it is valued to be. . In almost every case, a natural stone will outgrade an enhanced version.
Making Synthetic Diamonds
Most diamonds are found and mined by miners, However, it is quite possible for the diamond to be created by a scientific process. A synthetic version is still a real diamond, just created in a lab instead of the earth, and, of course, are much less valuable.
Colored Diamond Names
Because fancy colored diamonds are available in so many different shades, it can often be challenging to interpret the naming of the diamonds color. You can quite regularly see a cross referencing of color such as a “greenish blue”. Each diamond color name will have a primary color attached. In our example it would be blue. If another color is mentioned with an ‘ish’, that would be the secondary color. Some stones have equal parts of color such as red/ brown. There is no secondary color just a perfect half and half of each. .
Recently It has become a very popular choice to buy yellow diamond engagement rings, from the range of canary yellow diamonds and other fancy yellow diamonds.