How To Check If A Diamond Is Real Or Fake

hey guys in this video I want to talk about real and fake diamonds ooh look at that isn't that nice well let's find out if it's real when I first found this thing I grabbed it and said wow that's fake that's costume jewelry or something so I threw it in a drawer and didn't think about it at all and I just came across it recently and I decided okay well I'm cleaning this drought I'm gonna throw it away and I was like oh for the heck of it one thing I know about diamonds is that they scratch glass so I took it and I had a beer bottle while I was cleaning out this drawer and I put it against the glass there you go scratches the clasp I thought huh that's the only thing I know about diamonds so I should probably look this up and it turns out that even man-made diamonds can scratch glass they have a hardness of 8.2 or something so I looked up other ways to test if this was a diamond take a glass of water or a Tostitos jar and you drop it in here a real diamond will sink right to the bottom and a fake will float in the top or maybe in the middle and then drop so let's see what happens and that sank right to the bottom so you're saying to yourself whoa that's a diamond I mean if you look at the size of this thing it's huge and if this was a real diamond I'd be doing pretty good it'd be worth turns out that this isn't a definitive test either diamonds or fake diamonds with a large mass like this one can pass this test so that test is out another thing you can do is take a newspaper or a book like this and if you take the stone in question and you put it down on the page over the letters and if you look through the stone you shouldn't be able to make out any letters or anything a real diamond bends light in different ways and you really would not be able to see what you're seeing here it would look blurry another thing about fake diamonds or cubic zirconias or moissanite or another type of stone that's made to look like diamonds is there are natural imperfections in real diamonds and by magnifying this of course a lot of you aren't going to have a magnifying glass but you can take what's known as a jewelers jewelers loop and take a close look at this let's see if we can put this up to the camera that's pretty cool so if you were able to get a close enough look at a stone in question you could look for imperfections and if the stone looks too perfect it's probably fake and some of the cuts will be more round and not as defined and that is because a real diamond is a much harder stone than the fake diamonds and you can just can't get that crisp cut but that's hard to tell you know a trained eye could tell that you're probably not gonna be able to tell that another way you could tell is if this is a in a really nice expensive setting this is probably a real diamond that's not always the case of course you could put you know put a fake diamond in there if you wanted but it's not likely a lot of these are like things that okay this is how you tell but also it might not be true so the real test is and I want to warn you that you shouldn't do this because a lot of real diamonds have those imperfections that I was talking about and a jeweler will go in and fill in like cracks and stuff and this could undo the what has been done to fix the diamond but they say that if you heat a diamond up for about 30 seconds under fire and put it in water it will be just fine other than the damage that it might cause to the the fixing of the imperfections but a fake stone will explode and that's why I really want to do this video because I want to see this thing explode even though it's so pretty but if you really want to know for sure if your stone is a real diamond or a fake you need to bring it to a trusted jeweler that knows what they're doing not some guy on YouTube like me that just wants to see this stone explode but here we go anyways okay we have fire we have our Tostitos jar full of water let's heat up the stone in question do about 30 seconds I'm gonna put it right in the flame turn in black already hopefully these tweezers don't get too hot let's see what happens first try no explosions but you can see this thing lost all of its luster and it's fragmented oh yeah this thing is toast I think that's a pretty good sign that that's not a diamond but I'm not giving up let's try and make this thing explode okay round two I'm gonna hold this longer I wish I had a torch or something but this is about all I can do so hold it under there longer try and get it more hot see what happens all right round two unsuccessful all right so round two of fire unsuccessful at exploding this thing but it really is not looking good look at on the inside the outside still has like nice lines everything that's but on the inside you can tell it's just like crumbling so since I don't have a blowtorch or anything I want to make this thing explode so I'm going to go ahead and smash it with a hammer you

Channel: The Fixer

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Keywords: Home, home owner, home owner repair, repair, replace, diy, how to, do it yourself, fix, easy, house, house repair, maintenance, white topaz, moissanite, cubic zyrconia, cubic zirconia, garnet, spinal, rutile, real, fake, test, science, experiment, press, explode, exploding, checking if a diamond is fake, ow to spot if a diamond is fake, buying diamonds, how to tell if a diamond is real, allotrope, carbon, stone, gem, geode, mineral, how to know, how to tell

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 25 2019