Lab Finds Man-Made Sapphires Posing as Diamonds

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I saw this headline and couldn't believe my eyes. Since diamonds are in the cubic crystal system and single refractive, and sapphires are trigonal and double refractive, a simple loupe should have been able to detect that they weren't even synth diamonds, so whoever tried to pass them off as diamonds must be a real moron.

Lab Finds Man-Made Sapphires Posing as Diamonds
May 28, 2019 8:16 AM By Rapaport News



"RAPAPORT... Gemological Science International (GSI) has identified undisclosed lab-grown white sapphire melee set in pendants that had been submitted as natural-diamond jewelry.

The pendants, which GSI’s New York lab had received for a routine screening, contained near-colorless synthetic sapphires, placed next to natural white diamonds.

“While the industry has taken considerable steps to address this issue, the problem still persists,” GSI president and co-founder Debbie Azar said Monday. “What makes this finding unusual and very atypical was the use of melee-sized synthetic white sapphires.”

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