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Cubic Zirconium

Color: All ranges, including color changes
Moh’s Hardness: 8.25-8.5
Refractive index: 2.14-2.20
Critical Angle: 27.86°
Specific Gravity: 5.7
Cleavage: None
Fracture: Sub-conchoidal, brittle
Dispersion: Extremely strong (.06)
Heat Sensitivity: Low
Birefringence (double refraction): None
Crystal Structure: Isometric

Treatments: None

What I prefer to polishing with: Zinc laps with 8,000 pre-polish and 50,000 polish.

Jeff's Comments: CZ manufactured in the US and Britain is generally more consistent and having less polishing problems.

Design Links:
4-Way Stop - This is great for saturated rough if you have a piece that will work in the shape...
Princess - Nice in about any material
Brilliant Pear - Good in any color

Man-Made Links:
Synthetics - Index of Synthetic / Man-made Rough

Cubic Zirconia - Index to Cubic Zirconia
Blue
Clear/White
Golden/Topaz
Lavender
Peach
Pink
Red
Cubic Zirconia Special

Sapphire (Corundum)
- Index of Man-made Sapphire Rough
Burma Pink - Man-made Sapphire boules
Ceylon Blue - Man-made Sapphire boules
Color Change - Man-made Sapphire boules
Cranberry - Man-made Sapphire boules
Imperial - Man-made Sapphire boules
Padaparadschah - Man-made Sapphire boules
Ruby - Man-made Sapphire boules
White/Clear - Man-made Sapphire boules

YAG (man-made Garnet) - Index to YAG
Colorless - White, clear YAG
Green/Teal - Green/Teal YAG
Hot Yellow - Chrysoberyl color YAG
Pink - Pink YAG
Pink/Peach - Pink/peach YAG

Rutile - Man-made Rutile
Strontium Titanate - Man-made Strontium Titanate
Zincite
- Man made Zincite in all color, green, yellow, red, orange

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E-mail to inquire or order: jeff@faceters.com

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