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As seen on 20/20, Moissanite fools even professional jewelers and conventional diamond testers. Charles & Colvard created Moissanite is the only synthetic diamond that has an incredible hardness rating of 9.25 out of 10 (10 being diamond) and has more fire, brilliance and luster than diamond and is only one tenth the costs of diamond.

Unlike other synthetic diamonds such as Cubic Zirconia, Moissanite is made from silicon and carbon through a combination of heat and pressure and has the closest physical properties to that of a diamond. Therefore, when tested with a conventional diamond tester, Moissanite passes as a “diamond”.

Just like diamond, Moissanite is scratch resistant and will never fade, cloud or change colour after prolong wear.

All of our Moissanite jewels are accompanied by Charles & Colvard’s Certificate of Authenticity and Limited Lifetime Warranty.

Thousands of years ago, fragments of a meteorite scattered across the Arizona desert when it crashed on earth.

In 1893, Dr. Henri Moissan, a Nobel Prize winning scientist, discovered natural silicon carbide in Arizona, while studying and analyzing fragments of this meteorite near the Diablo Canyon or Meteor Crater. Dr. Henri Moissan soon discovered the presence of very small quantities of this mineral that has fire and brilliance never before seen on earth. Upon further investigation and testing, it was discovered that the mineral was made of silicon carbide. In honor of Dr. Moisson, the mineral was named Moissanite in 1905.

Since it is very rare to obtain naturally occurring Moissanite which is only found in minute quantities, years of research and development was successful in discovering special techniques through a combination of science and art to produce these special and rare Moissanite crystals in a Lab.

It was in the late 1980’s when a North Carolina company named CREE which is the world leader in the manufacture of silicon carbide for electronic use, developed a process for producing large single crystals of Moissanite. In 1995, scientists from CREE and Charles & Colvard began a three year research initiative and technique to properly cut the large crystals of silicon carbide into brilliant new Moissanite jewels.

Fire: Fire is the dispersion of light in a jewel. It also refers to how light breaks into the spectrum of colours and is measured by the amount of coloured flashes viewed as the jewel is placed under different lighting conditions.

Luster: Luster is the amount of light that the jewel reflects back to the observer from the surface of the jewel.

Durability: Durability is the toughness, hardness or the resistance to scratching, chipping or cleaving.

More information regarding Moissanite can be found at the Charles&Colvard website at www.moissanite.com

Obviously, there have been many attempts to imitate real diamond due to its price and popularity. However, with the exception of Moissanite, all of their attempts lack the brilliance, luster and hardness of diamonds. Only Moissanite stacked up as the best diamond simulant ever, and is made of similar carbon element as diamond which is known for its hardness.

Physical Elements of Diamonds: They are the hardest naturally occurring minerals consisting of pure carbon crystals form tightly by the bonding to four other carbon atoms. Their hardness is a result of the strength of the carbon bonds.

Physical Elements of Moissanite: Moissanite is the only synthetic diamond that is made of Silicon Carbide (SiC) which is also nearly as hard due to the presence of the carbon bonds. It is created under extreme heat (1200 deg C) and pressure (50,000 atmospheres).

Moissanites are typically VS1 in clarity when using the diamond grading system as a benchmark. See table below.