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As the price for original diamonds keep increasing, lately some merchants try to male some quick and dirty money by fooling customers with duds. You sure don’t want to lose your hard earned money in some worthless stone.

It may be easy to spot obvious duds from original shiny diamonds but when the duds are so real with good shine close to the original ones, it gets harder to spot being a regular diamond shopper.

Duds are sometimes priced less and the genuine merchants will honestly tell you it’s a dud. However not all merchants are honest and that’s where it gets tricky. Sometimes you can easily understand on your own if it’s a dud when the merchant tries to convince on your purchase with heavy bargains and discounts which the genuine diamonds can’t offer

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You might have heard of 22, 24 and other carat gradings for Gold which determines the ratio of copper added to the metal alloy. But when it comes to diamond, it is completely different. Carat in diamond suggests the weight of the diamond.

One carat equals 0.2 grams. Considering the heavy price tag and very light weight of diamonds, each carat is further divided into points. 1 Carat will actually have 100 points.

Although the carat plays a part in the price tag, you should also consider the weight distribution in the diamond. To be more clear, if most of the diamond weight is to the bottom part of the diamond, it’s value is down. Likewise, there are a lot of other complicated factors.

You must also note that carat solely does not define the price of a diamond and there are a lot of other factors playing in it. The merchants usually never explain each of them to regular shoppers and just like the secret of weight distribution in carat, every factor will have its own secret that you have to sort out to exactly find how much a diamond is worth.

Obviously you cannot attend college and get a gemology degree or something similar to know all the secrets. There is actually 4 ‘C’s to it. Color, Clarity, Cut and Carat. Each of them have their own gradings and the price is proportionate to them.

For example, colorless diamonds are the best and VS1 clarity is the best. The price difference between VS1 and 2 is high but the visible difference is not. So better ask for these details and compare the diamonds in front of your eye before buying.

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Blue-White Diamond is an old term used by jewelers of old age and now the FTC is carefully controlling the use of this term because of its misuse and scams in the past.

Blue light in the diamond actually refers to its fluorescence under UV light where it glows or emits blue colored light. Although jewelers say these diamonds are of high value, never trust them. Fluorescence will actually make the diamond shine less in light or even appears milky under sunlight and this heavily reduces the value of the diamond.

Fluorescence does give an advantage to a minimal extent when it is at minimal levels. If you know a little more about diamonds, you’re probably aware of the fact that colorless diamonds have more value and as the yellow tinge increases, the value reduces. Fluorescence will actually reduce the impact of yellow tinge at minimal levels. So in perfect level of fluorescence, slight yellow diamonds may appear colorless increasing the value to the diamond.