Tension mount fake diamond engagement rings are a wonderful green alternative
When you hear the words “fake diamond”, you probably picture a diamond made out of plastic, glass, or maybe even cubic zirconium. While historically this is what most people meant when they referred to fake diamonds, these days, most people who use the phrase fake diamond are really referring to man-made diamonds. Man-made diamonds are diamonds that are extremely close to mined diamonds in chemical composition, hardness, color, and size. Instead of being created in the earth over hundreds of thousands of years, they are created under simulated conditions in a laboratory at a much faster pace. Just like mined diamonds, you can buy a fake diamond in whatever size and shape you desire. Even better, because they are made under controlled conditions, if you buy a high-quality fake diamond, they’ll have far less inclusions than the real thing and will be brighter and clearer in color than mind diamonds. Also, because they are made in a laboratory instead of being buried under huge amounts of earth, you do not have to dig into the earth and upset the ecosystem to get to it. With all the diamond mining of today, even in Canada where there is less threat of any human rights violations in the diamond mines, the mines themselves are slowly destroying the ecosystem and helping to speed up the extinction of certain animals that live in these colder climates where the diamonds are mined in Canada.
Even better, when you buy a man-made, a.k.a., fake, diamond, you can have it mounted in any setting that you would choose for a mined diamond. It can be set in a four-prong or six-prong setting where it will shine brilliantly. You can have a bunch of these diamonds channel set into the ring itself to add sparkles to your ring. Or, another wonderful alternative to a traditional setting is to look at tension mount fake diamond engagement rings. Tension mount engagement rings make a beautiful diamond look even brighter, clearer, and brilliant than any other diamond setting. In a tension mount fake diamond engagement ring, the diamond is suspended between the two sides of the band so that it appears to float between the metal without anything holding it up. In reality, it’s the pressure from the metal that is holding it up, but because there is no metal underneath the ring, more light can get through to the diamond so it ends up looking even more beautiful than it otherwise would in a more traditional setting.
To make the ring even more earth-friendly, you should also consider the problems to the environment caused by mining the metal that goes into making the bands for the ring. There are companies that recycle metal that is most popular in wedding and engagement rings, especially gold, to allow people to reuse it without harming the environment any further. Searching on the Internet or speaking with your jeweler are two good ways of finding companies that will sell recycled metal so that it can be turned into your ring to make your tension mount fake diamond engagement ring completely “green”.
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