Birthstones

When shopping for a birthstone, you may encounter a wide range of prices along with the labels "natural", "lab created or synthetic", and "simulated". As you might expect, natural gemstones customizable best friend necklaces[click] are the most valuable, as they are created by nature, must be mined, and are rare.

Many natural stones do not look pretty in their natural state. Rather, they must be treated with heat or chemicals to bring out the colors we admire, then carefully facet cut and polished to bring out the sparkle monogram silver necklace and fire we want. A good gem cutter can work around the naturally occurring flaws within the stone, called inclusions, which can either give the gemstone character or decrease its value.

Laboratories are able to take the composite minerals that compose a natural stone, which took nature eons to produce, and re-create the necessary heat and pressure to synthetically make an identical gemstone. The only difference is that a lab-created gemstone is flawless, meaning it is without inclusions or impurities that occur in a naturally formed gemstone bracelet for your girlfriend.

Simulated stones are made from materials that are not part of the composition of a natural gemstone. They may be made from glass, plastic, or other synthetic or natural stones. For example, lab-created sapphires may be color treated to simulate alexandrite gems, or a zircon is used in place of a diamond. Even harder to detect are stones with a thin layer of natural gemstone custom friendship necklace fused to another material. These stones often take a trained gemologist to detect, and are called doublets or triplets.

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