Saw a story about a wedding ring where instead of a diamond the ring was jeweled with the couple's birth stones fit together into the shape of a heart, which honestly I think is WAY better and probably WAY cheaper too.

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What are birth stones?

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Birthstones are like the zodiac signs of geology. Each month gets assigned a gemstone.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

One of which is diamond, annoyingly enough.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago

There's some religious history to them, but in general these days people are talking about the list of stones that American jewelers came up with in the early 20th century to try to sell more shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthstone?useskin=vector

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

As long as one the birth months isn't April.

[–] fristislurper@feddit.nl 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Moissanite is chemically different to diamond (SiC vs C), has a different crystal structure, and is less hard. You can also get actual lab-grown diamond, but they are quite expensive. But you probabaly won't be able to tell the difference anyway.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Usually you can tell the difference. Lab grown diamond is pure while rock grown diamond is imperfect.

But you have to look at it under a magnifying glass to tell, and know what you’re looking for.

[–] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But also, who cares that it's less hard? I'm not using it for a drill bit, it's a cosmetic piece. Literally it's only function is visual. And moissanite is superior. All the visual markers that are used for beauty in a diamond it surpasses. And some quick googling I did to confirm that also showed me that diamond is only barely harder ("With a hardness of 9.25, moissanite is the second-hardest material used a gemstone." a diamond is a 10.) and it turns out, less likely to break in some cases. "Moissanite doesn't have a cleavage plane, while diamond does. (This is an internal plane along which a diamond crystal can easily split)" So if you hit a diamond in the wrong spot, it can still crack. Moissanite does not have a weak spot.

source

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's very important to me that my gemstone only has carbon. If it has silicon I'm going to get very upset. Silicon interferes with your inner flow and can have harmful ions.

my crystal wearing, hippy Grandma.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

It’s like 93% as hard but has better better optical properties which is what matters.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A strategy that has been working well for me is "Never buy jewelry of any kind ever because it's completely pointless."

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Don't hang around people who demand you consume in order to get their approval. They are empty people who will not support you.

[–] Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything can be pointless when it comes down to it. I never ever wore jewelry but when I got married we got really nice matching plain bands and now I never take it off and quite like how it looks, it's not pointless to me.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

There will be no rings for me. I run too many power tools for that.