duminică, 21 iulie 2013

Reading A Diamond Color Chart Can Help Determine The Value Of These Precious Stones

By Carl Prescot


The 4 C's is a method that is used to help determine the value of diamonds. The 4 C's are cut, clarity, carat, and color. While all four of these components need to be taken into consideration when considering how valuable these stones are, a diamond color chart reviews the value of diamonds based on their colors.

Most people, when searching for diamonds to purchase, will opt to obtain stones that are colorless. These stones are most the wanted types of diamonds, due to their rarity, beauty, and high cost. However, many people tend to not realize that diamonds come in many different colors.

It is noted that diamonds that release fire are the most expensive stones available. Many will question how a stone can emit fire. Well, really, it is not the stone that releases fire, instead, it is the interior section of the stone that splits beams of light, emulative to a prism. When these beams of light are split, it appears like the interior section of the stone is on fire.

When searching for diamonds, a lot of people want their stones to glisten. They want the stones to shine bright whenever light hits them. This is known as firing. The diamonds that do fire are typically the colorless ones. The colorless diamonds cost more money than the ones that have some type of colors to them.

Most jewelers will utilize charts for diamonds that either come from the AGS or the GIA. Both of these styles of charts will provide grades for diamonds, based on their colors. The colors range from colorless to yellowish, brown colored stones. AGS grades the stones by numbers, while GIA will grade the stones by letters.

There are several different things that could affect the grade that diamonds are given on a diamond color chart. Fluorescent lights are one of the things that affect the colors given to these stones. Whenever UV lights hit the stone for elongated frames of time, this can cause the colors to change. The bands that the stones are attached to can also affect the colors seen.




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