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Diamond Cut
How a diamond is cut--so that all of its facets work in harmony to spark the greatest brilliance--is an art as much as it is a science. Among the 4C's of diamond value, including clarity, color and carat weight, cut is considered the most critical. Cut is what unleashes a diamond's singular beauty.
A number of special terms are used to describe the quality of a cut. It is enough to know that very good diamonds reflect up to 90% of the light entering from above. Good diamonds are equally well proportioned, but their reflective powers are less than their more highly graded relations. At the low end of reflectivity, fair and poor diamonds may reflect no more than 40% of the entering light.
Proportion plays a key role. A shallow cut diamond, where the bottom half lacks a certain depth, reflects light downward from its base. A diamond cut too deeply will emit light from the side of its base. Ideally cut diamonds, and therefore more perfectly proportioned stones, reflect most of their light through their table or top surface. This quality is the most prized and costly.
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