Basket Earrings (RTS) - 0.71ctw Round Cut Lab Created Diamonds, 14K White Gold

The Diamond Hybrid® is the most affordable, beautiful, and scientifically advanced, diamond infused simulant ever created. It is constructed by placing a non-precious porous crystal core, which is wrapped and layered with tiny diamond crystals, into a chamber of heat and pressure. This heat and pressure chamber infuses the diamond crystals into the upper layers of the crystal core, fusing the diamond crystals together to create the Diamond Hybrid®.

With an outer layer hardness of approximately 9.1 on the Mohs scale, the Diamond Hybrid has a similar hardness to a precious gem, such as a Sapphire or Ruby, and should, therefore, be treated with the same level of tender loving care.

Lab-created diamonds, also referred to as man-made diamonds or cultured diamonds, are real diamonds - optically, chemically and physically identical to mined diamonds, grown by placing a diamond seed into a controlled chamber of extreme heat and pressure that replicates the earth’s natural growing process.

Every MiaDonna lab-created diamond is type IIa, meaning they are the purest form of diamond available; this makes them harder, and with more brilliance than a traditional type Ia diamond. Only 2% of earth-mined diamonds will ever reach this level of perfection.

Lab-created gemstones are cut from high-quality crystals that are grown in a highly controlled laboratory environment using the flux fusion method. The timeframe to grow the gemstone crystal can be up to eight months, after which time the rough crystal is cut away to reveal what will be the final gemstone.