How can I tell if a diamond is real or fake,while at home???

Answer 1

No, it is not possible.

The most common types of “fake diamonds” are made out of glass or of materials called cubic zirconia or moissanite. One of the properties that can be used to distinguish diamonds from other materials is its HARDNESS. Real diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring materials, having a hardness of 10 on the Moh’s scale which is a relative scale of hardness in minerals. So a real diamond will scratch anything else, including other natural gems such as ruby and sapphire or artificial gems such as the cubic zirconia or moissanite. Fake diamonds that are glass can easily be scratched by a steel file or a piece of quartz or other gems like ruby. The cubic zirconia has a hardness of 8.5 and can be scratched by a ruby or sapphire or a real diamond. The moissanite has a hardness of 9.25 and can only be scratched by a real diamond. However, jewelery that contains moissanite or cubic zirconia is still expensive and beautiful; you may not want to scratch it with a diamond to test whether or not it is real!

There are often other distinguishing features of diamonds such as small inclusions of other minerals. The inclusions usually cannot be seen without using a microscope or a hand lens (jeweler’s loupe), but these inclusions are a way of determining that a diamond is real. Artificial gems will not have inclusions of other minerals. However, the very highest quality real diamonds will not have any inclusions in them.

Finally, the composition of “fake” diamonds is very different from that of real diamonds. Diamonds are composed of pure carbon. Cubic zicronia is made of zirconium oxide usually with some yttrium oxide. Moissanite is made from silicon and carbon. There are non-destructive ways to analyze materials to determine their composition. Many of these analytical techniques are available in the Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Experimental Facilities. These analytical tools, which include electron microscopes and x-ray diffractometers, can quickly determine if a material is cubic zirconia, or moissanite, or real diamond.

Answer 2

Fake Diamond Material

Answer 3

You can't, unless you are experienced gemologist and/or have special tools and no matter what you’ve learnt or think you know, the only sure way to identify, qualify and assess a diamond is to use the professional services of a diamond grading laboratory.

The most commonly utilized diamond simulant is cubic zirconia. No relation to natural zircon, CZ makes a fairly convincing diamond simulant (and will scratch glass). However, the optical properties of diamond and cubic zirconia are different and these differences can be exploited when you know that one stone is CZ and another is diamond.

In the late 1990’s moissanite burst onto the jewelry scene, and conventional thermal-based diamond testers could not distinguish moissanite from diamond. In a now notorious case of investigative journalism, British newshounds took moissanite to 10 London jewelers for an “appraisal”, while secretly filming the outcome. Out of the 10 jewelers put to the test, only 1 correctly identified the moissanite. Well, if they were using 10x gem loupe and little bit of training they will easily spot an optical doubling feature of moissanite. Diamond, a singly refractive gem, will never ever show this effect.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If it's real, it will scratch glass, and when you move it, the diamonds should show different color patterns whereas fake diamonds just look like glass.

Answer 6

You can tell it is a fake by putting it in the oven at the highest temp possible. If it turns to carbon and burns away it is fake. If it retains the same structure and shape it is probably real.

Answer 7

you cannot.

well if it is a very poor fake (glass?) then it will not scratch glass, whereas a diamond should.

but a mere zircon will look very much like a diamond, and it will scratch glass.

bottom-line, you'll have to go see a gemmologist. and you should abstain from buying grey diamonds, precisely because it is impossible for an amateur to tell.

Answer 8

rub the coned side/sharp side of it in a glass, that will make scratch on it and if u put some tressure on the plate of glass, it will divide into pieces following those linesyou scratched by your diamond.
Take xray test in lab for confirmation.

Answer 9

If you have a sapphire, see which scratch which. If the sapphire can scratch your diamond, you have a fake. If reverse happens, you have a diamond.

Answer 10

Eat it... IF you die, then it is real... else it is fake...