What is a Takara Cultured Diamond?
Takara Cultured Diamonds are pure diamonds, grown in a laboratory instead of mined. Thus, like mined diamonds, Takara's are composed of 99.99% carbon, in an isometric crystal structure, same as min...
- 2008: BetterThanDiamond.com Holiday Sales Revenue Surges 57 Percent
December sales led by Takara lab grown yellow diamonds and Asha diamond simulant stud earrings
...iamonds on our TakaraDiamonds.com website (http://takaradiamonds.com/) was completely sold out with ...
- BetterThanDiamond.com Spring Sales Revenue Surges 70 Percent
...owth was driven by record sales for the Asha(R) Diamond Simulant, as well as their Takara lab grown diamonds. "We have been very pleased with the continuing demand for our products," said Less Wrigh...
- 2007: BetterThanDiamond.com November Sales Revenue Up 46%, Led By Ashaź Diamond Simulant Sales
...jewelry retailers. The company's Takara Diamonds subsidiary, which offers pink and yellow lab grown diamonds, also experienced increased demand but due to low production ability, did not contribute su...
- Will Ashaź test positive on a diamond tester?
No, it will not. For a product that is real diamond, but lab grown, please see our Takara cultured diamonds here. Even though the exterior of an Asha contains a multitude of tiny diamond crystals (...
- 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 than another, because natural diamonds are available in the same exact colors. Thus, an F color As...
- What do the color grades for Asha mean (i.e. 'F' color or 'H' color)?
... the Ashas reviewed and color graded after the coating run, and they are graded the same as natural diamonds. While most people think of all diamonds as simply being white or colorless, the reality i...
- Is the Ashaź patented or patent-pending?
...It should further be noted that currently, within the entire market of 'diamond simulants' or 'fake diamonds', there are only two product that have US patent involvement - Asha and Moissanite. Whil...
- Is the Asha carat size equivalent to natural diamond carat sizes?
Yes, the sizes of Asha are cut to the same size dimensions as natural diamonds, and the Asha's are already listed in diamond weight equivalents on the website. Thus, the dimensions of a 2ct well-cut...
- How do I clean my new Asha?
... metals sparkling. Otherwise, due to its amorphous diamond exterior, any chemical cleaner used for diamonds may be used on the Asha. A true ultrasonic cleaner (meaning you will need to pay over $50 ...
- My Asha has a line on the side - is it cracked?
One optical effect that often tricks customers of both diamonds and Asha into thinking their stone is 'cracked' or 'internally fractured' can be shown in the following photos: Note the horizontal li...
- Will the Asha simulated diamond scratch glass?
...glass and we therefore don't recommend that this test be even a concern when shopping for imitation diamonds.
- Is the Asha singly refractive like diamond, or doubly refractive like moissanite?
...nstead, it will appear fuzzy or blurry to the eye.
By comparison, Asha® perfectly mimics the diamonds crystal structure (face-centered-cubic) resulting in a virtually identical look as fine dia...
- What is Ashaź made of?
...small atom size and tight-packing. Diamond mines previously used the non-porosity as a way to sort diamonds out by running a grease belt as only the diamonds would stick due to not absorbing the grea...
- What about Diamond Nexus Labs - what is their product? Lab grown diamond?
...y advertising their product as "lab grown diamond", Diamond Nexus previously took photos of natural diamonds, and even the Asha diamond simulant, and represented them to customers as being photos of t...
- Sona Diamond Simulant - Information and Review (XPS analysis)
Sona Diamond Simulant has made a number of claims about their product, including statements that it is a non-CZ simulant created by high-pressure melding of natural diamond and sapphire, and that it h...