Diamond Clarity
Understanding a diamond report …..CLARITY
- Diamonds are crystalised carbon where, during their formation, traces of non- crystalised materials were able to be trapped within it. These imperfections are called inclusions and can be measured (microns).
- These inclusions can be of various colors, transparent (gaseous bubble), black (carbon), green, brown etc.
- Some are more obvious to the eye than others, this factor is taken into consideration where grading diamonds is concerned.
- If an imperfection is too large or too colored it can interfere with the brilliance or sparkle of the diamond.
- Clarity is determined by examination under a specially adapted stereoscopic microscope, the norm being that the grading is labelled as ‘viewed under 10x magnification by a trained eye using a loupe (glass), free of chromatic aberration’.
- The size of the imperfections go from ‘Internally Flawless’ (IF or FL) to ‘P3’ (pique) or ‘I3′(inclusion 3).
