how do i polish a zirconia diamond?? it has scratches on it.?

Answer 1

A facetter will be able to take the scratches out of your cubic zirconia or your zircon (whichever it is). They will use a facetting machine that spins flat circular discs (called laps) that are embedded with small diamond bits. The facetter will continue to polish the stone on successively finer grits of these laps until the scratches are gone.

All polishing is--whether for stones or for metal--is removal of scratches. Removing dirt, tarnish (in metal), etc. is not polishing but rather cleaning.

The best way to access a reputable facetter is to take the stone to a jeweler. The jewelry should have an individual facetter who he contracts work with or a cutting house that he sends his facetting/polishing work to.

BTW, diamonds CAN be scratched--by other diamonds. If it was impossible to scratch diamonds, they would not be able to be polished, i.e no substance would be able to remove the scratches on raw diamond crystal. Anyone who has seen a raw daimond crystal will know that a high level of polishing is required to produce the diamonds we see in jewelry. So, never store your diamond jewelry unprotected with other diamond jewelry; this will prevent the diamonds scratching one another. And never store your diamond jewelry with other jewelry; this will prevent the diamonds from scratching the other pieces.

Good luck.

Answer 2

What you have is not a diamond at all, but a zircon, or a cubic zirconia (diamonds do not get scratched). Polishing the stone will actually make the scratches appear worse by bring attention to them. Find a jeweler with a knowledge of lapidary ( gemstone cutting/carving), and they should be able to fix it. The fix will probably involve grinding off a very small portion of the surface (in the same way that you would sand scratches out of metal or wood, only with stone tools).

Answer 3

People often ignore an important factor: pressure. A softer stone can STILL scratch a harder stone, but the softer stone will be damaged much more in such process. It all depends on how much pressure is applied. The degree at which the scratching occurs will depend on pressure at the finest point and the hardness of the material that is doing the scratching, but the material doing the scratching need not necessarily be equal or harder than the material being scratched. For example, the sapphire lens covers on iphones still get scratched by things that are less hard than sapphire, otherwise they probably would never get scratched, but they still do. It occurs if enough pressure is applied. The scratching material need only be hard enough. Sharpness would not matter in this case because the only reason a sharper item scratches better is because more pressure is being applied at one single point. This is why it is easier to scratch things using sandpaper, even things that are harder!

Answer 4

take it to a jeweler