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To: mph who wrote (9944)	12/16/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

But jewelers are getting moissanite and think they are diamonds. They are downplaying it, but a show here in Canada, MarketPlace a couple weeks ago took a moissanite set in a ring and had it appraised. 8 out of 10 Jewelers thought it was a real diamond. It fooled the electronic diamond testers, as well as the expert eye. More info seminolesheriff.org >One major problem in detection is that moissanite is thermally conductive like diamond, and can fool traditional thermal diamond testers used to detect cubic zirconia.<