What is the clarity grade of the Asha diamond simulant?
The Asha grades as IF, or Internally Flawless on the GIA diamond clarity scale. Here is a sample grading report for an Asha H&A round which shows the clarity grade:
- What color options do I have for the Ashaź I'm interested in? i.e. Can I get a 2ct round in, say, D color?
All Asha® stones are color graded by an independent GIA certified gemologist after they are created (the average grade is F color). The stones are then listed on our website using the grading t...
- What color of Asha is the most realistic? What color is best?
Asha's are graded on the same color scale as natural diamonds, and thus no color is more realistic t...
- What is the difference between 'diamond cut' and 'sapphire cut' sapphires?
...'fatter' belly. The reason for this is to ensure and enhance the color of the sapphire (bigger bott...
- What do the color grades for Asha mean (i.e. 'F' color or 'H' color)?
The color grades shown next to each Asha shape and size are their colors on the GIA Diamond color...
- Sona Diamond Simulant - Information and Review (XPS analysis)
...cluding statements that it is a non-CZ simulant created by high-pressure melding of natural diamond and sapphire, and that it has a special 'sapphire' coating. Their claims in Nov, 2007 included: ...
- What is a Takara Cultured Diamond?
...amonds to grow. Because they are real diamond, Takara's come with an independent EGL or GGL fancy color diamond grading report, the same report that is issued with mined diamonds, except a notation ...
- What is the difference between version 5 Ashaź and version 6 (v5 vs v6)?
... Patent Application No. 12/139,931 -- Method for Producing a Highly Refractive Composite Gemstone, and Product
Asha® is now being offered in version 6, in limited quantities. Most of our produ...
- Does palladium require rhodium plating?
Palladium is naturally a beautiful white metal, and thus never requires any type of plating. Rhod...ne to white gold in order to make it a true white color, as white gold naturally has a yellow tint t...
- What is Ashaź made of?
...dex higher than natural diamond
3) An infusion layer of amorphous diamond that completely encases and seals the entire stone. A discussion of each component involved is presented below:
1)High...
- What is the type of diamond used in creating the Asha diamond simulant?
...ond". This amorphous diamond is created using a patent pending nanotechnology process, is man-made and "composed of a multitude of tiny diamond crystals all aligned together*". Its amorphous cryst...
- What about Diamond Nexus Labs - what is their product? Lab grown diamond?
Diamond Nexus Labs "lab-grown diamond" has been tested by multiple labs and in all cases, the product has repeatedly been shown to be to be ordinary CZ. These test findings are in stark contrast...
- Is the Asha singly refractive like diamond, or doubly refractive like moissanite?
...ture is face-centered-cubic. By comparison, Moissanite is hexagonal...which means that it will not handle light the way a diamond does, and creates what is termed "bi-refringance". Basically, light w...
- Palladium - Facts and info on our favorite precious metal for jewelry
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Pure palladium for jewelry is 95% palladium, and usually 5% ruthenium (ruthenium is often mixed...s, palladium has no allergy issues.
True white color - white gold has a yellowish tint in its nat...
- 2001: BetterThanDiamond.com Announces Another Scientific First for its Asha(TM) Diamond Simulant
...this research effort after noting that Asha(TM) had a nearly perfect 2:1 unit cell match between it and diamond (thus creating an ideal substrate for diamond coating). The samples are proof-of-concept...
- How does Asha compare to other diamond simulants?
...ry 'Amorphous Diamond Treatment' (ADT) that coats and infuses into its underlying CZ core, no other ... spectrum into the visible spectrum and the first color the human eye can see is blue, and this is t...