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    How Diamond Certification Works
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    How Diamond Certification Works
    A diamond certificate is a grading report from an independent laboratory. This guide follows a stone through the lab, from intake and weighing to origin screening, color and clarity grading... Read more
    Understanding Diamond Inclusions: What They Are and Which Ones Matter
    Understanding Diamond Inclusions: What They Are and Which Ones Matter
    Almost every diamond has inclusions. The question is which ones, where they sit, and whether you would ever see them. This guide explains how inclusions form, the types named on... Read more
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    What Makes a Diamond Sparkle, and What Quietly Dims It
    What Makes a Diamond Sparkle, and What Quietly Dims It
    A diamond makes no light of its own. Everything that flashes across a room is borrowed light, bent, trapped and returned by the cut. This guide explains brilliance, fire and... Read more
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    What You Are Actually Paying For in a Diamond
    Two round brilliants sit on the same tray. Both weigh one carat, and to anyone at conversational distance they look like the same stone. One is priced at three thousand... Read more
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    What Is Diamond Fluorescence, and Does It Change the Stone
    What Is Diamond Fluorescence, and Does It Change the Stone
    One diamond in three glows blue under ultraviolet light, and most owners never find out. Fluorescence is the line on a grading report sold as a flaw, a bonus and... Read more
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    What Is a Certified Diamond, and When the Report Matters
    What Is a Certified Diamond, and When the Report Matters
    Two round brilliants, same weight, same white, same price bracket. One arrives with a grading report from an independent laboratory, the other with a salesperson's word. This guide reads the... Read more
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    How Diamonds Are Graded
    How Diamonds Are Graded
    A diamond grade is a standardized reading of a stone's quality, taken by an independent laboratory and recorded on a report that travels with the diamond. This 101 guide explains... Read more
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