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Classifying Diamond Colour In Diamond Engagement Rings
Diamond engagement rings are ladies’ best friends. These rings signify and formalize agreements for future marriages. And for women, having their partners ask their hands in marriage is one of the happiest moments in their lives.
As a tradition, it is the man who goes to the store to shop around for the right engagement ring for his lady. Choosing an engagement ring can be very difficult as there are so many varieties, styles, and designs in the market. In addition, upon closer look of a diamond, one would see that it has a slight color to it. That tint constitutes a part of the four C’s—clarity, carat weight, cut, and color—that determine the quality of a diamond. In this article, we will discuss the last C, which is color.
Lots of diamonds are not really colorless. The shade comes from impurities that are molecularly embedded in the carbon that comprises the diamond. Yet it is the pure colorless diamonds, normally called white diamonds, which all other colors are judged to.
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has created an official guideline to find out the true color of a diamond. The tint of a candidate stone is compared to the color of a couple of control stones, which are pre-selected to a specific colour.
The diamond that is to be color graded must be a loose stone. This means it must not be set into the metal since the metal can alter the natural hue of the stone. Next, the candidate diamond is put table-down, pavilion-up beside the control stone. It is then viewed and scrutinized with a 10X loupe. A letter system from D to Z is then used to classify the color of the diamond, with D being given to scarce, completely colorless diamonds.
* D to F – colorless or white
* G to J – almost colorless
* K to M – tinted in a barely imperceptible yellow hue
* N to R – lightly tinted in a yellow hue. The color can be seen by the human eye, even without special grading equipment
* S to Z – moderately tinted, progressing to brown. The hue is observable even when the diamond is mounted.
Ask a skilled jeweler to help you choose the right engagement ring and diamond earrings with the right diamond color.
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