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Anybody know anything about this "Moissanite" thing? I find it interesting that in the 100+ comments here, there's no mention of the item the linked website so
by NikolaNovak 8y ago
Anybody know anything about this "Moissanite" thing?
I find it interesting that in the 100+ comments here, there's no mention of the item the linked website so heavily promotes, yet I personally never heard of until now. One of the reasons I love HN is that usually relevant knowledge and experience will come out of woodworks and share their wisdom - so, anybody ever heard of "Moissanite"? :)
- decimalstus 8y agoMoissanite is another name for Silicon Carbide - it's often used as a diamond 'lookalike' in jewelry, as it's much cheaper to produce.
- groby_b 8y agoIt's a stone engineered to be a diamond replacement, as the article mentions. From there, what would you like to know? (My wife's a jeweler, so I'll probably have to forward the harder question, but as study-buddy for her gemologist education I know at least some trivia :) It's... a different stone. You can usually tell cut diamonds and moissanites apart with the naked eye once they reach a sufficient size. (Moissanites have a telltale rainbow sparkle, diamonds don't. Large moissanites have a color tinge, "good" diamonds don't) You can debate which one looks better - I prefer diamonds with an old european cut, because they're spectacular :) - but ultimately, it's a rock. You buy a pretty bauble because you like how it looks. There's very little intrinsic value here.