NEO Moissanite and the technical spec's!
Posted by Port City Jewelers on Nov 14th 2016
A short history about NEO Moissanite and why you should choose NEO Moissanite!
Have you seen this new NEO Moissanite online and asked yourself, "what the heck is it?" Well the patent for Charles & Colvard ended last year in 2015 and now Moissanite is an open Market! However not all Moissanite is the same! There are huge quality differences in the color, cut and especially the raw crystal used. NEO Moissanite in our opinion is the very best quality to hit the market as of yet! Port City Jewelers believes that it will be a very long time until someone else can break into the Moissanite market and deliver this type of quality.
Example of the NEO's Brilliance and Fire:
NEO Moissanite Round Brilliant Loose Stone from Port City Jewelers on Vimeo.
The NEO Moissanite Technical Specifications
The Moissanite NEO; like the Forever One by C&C, is a 4H (SiC) crystalline structure, it is the whitest raw silicon carbide poly-type allowing for True D, E, F, G & H colorless moissanite production. The Moissanite NEO has been sectioned into two categories, True G-H color and True E-F color.
Editor Quote: "One of the most
fascinating aspects of the NEO 4H (SiC) poly-type is that it can be
graded using the diamond grading scale. Never before has this been
possible with moissanite. Prior patent expiration 6H (SiC) poly-type
like the Forever Classic and Forever Brilliant are saturated green and
yellow color hues."
Call to Action - Heat Test- "The 4H
Moissanite NEO will not change color under heat. The 6H Moissanite by
Charles and Colvard will turn a bright yellow upon heating."
The
NEO revealed - Neo Moissanite starts out as a seed crystal suspended
inside a vacuum sealed chamber. Intense Heat and High Pressure is
applied. Within 3-12 weeks the raw crystal is fully grown; cylindrical
in shape, 3 - 4 inches in diameter and 5 - 6 inches from top to
bottom. Once removed from the reactor the raw crystal is turned on its
side and laser cut into wafers then laser cut into preforms. (Preforms:
the shape of the stone that you want as a final product) Once all
preforms are completed, they are sent to the cutting house where they
are faceted then polished. The last step prior to going through our
hyper extensive in house quality control, is a special and vital
annealing process. This process repairs any broken bonds from the raw
crystal growth and creates the whitest possible finished product.
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