Understanding The Colored Diamond

A Buyers Guide To Colored Diamonds

Synthetically Enhanced Colored Diamonds

Lots of individuals are starting to prefer the fancy, dramatic colored gems over the classic transparent, or white-colored, diamond. A number of precious gems are found in their natural colors when they are mined, many others become colored by gemologists and jewelers by carrying out a treatment procedure. In order to make sure they are more affordable to the average customer, specialists have started synthetically treating gems of lower qualities so they can take a less attractive yellowish or brownish colored gem and turn it into a stunning, brightly colored diamond.

Colored diamonds can be treated by the procedure known as irradiation, which utilizes a very high heat technique to alter the color of a stone. Some other diamonds can be treated by painting.

Fancy Colored Diamonds

Even though precious gems are usually graded and valued based on their colorless attributes, there are still quite a few individuals who opt for the fancy tinted diamonds which appear in vibrant hues of greens, yellow, reddish, pink and 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. If the gemstone has been effected by radiation, the gem may turn green.

For those with a smaller budget who would not ordinarily be able to afford a fancy gem, can now do so with treated diamonds which are a very attractive option. Specialist jewelers have found means to alter a gemstones color to almost any strength of shade that is desired.Grading colored gems is more complex than grading the clear variety due to the stacking of the color intensity.. 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. Secondly, they are graded based on the intensity of that color. 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

In general, most diamonds are found in the earth, in mines and extracted by miners , However, it is quite possible for the diamond to be created by a scientific process. While a synthetic diamond is still a “real diamond”, they are created within a laboratory instead of by nature in a mine.

Color Names

Due to the fact fancy colored diamonds are available in many shades, it can often be hard 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. If you come upon a diamond labeled “brown red”, then the diamond will have equal amounts of both colors seen through the stone.

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