Laboratory Created Gemstones
What are lab created gemstones, and are they any good? There’s a difference between lab created gemstones and simulated gemstones. It’s a legal as well as a chemical one.
The term “simulated gemstone” indicates a laboratory stone that is created to look like a natural stone, but does not have any of the optical, physical or chemical characteristics that an actual stone consists of.
But a “synthetic” or “lab created” stone has the very same properties of a natural stone, including the optical, physical and chemical ones. Why is this also a legal difference? It’s because the Federal Trade Commission makes the distinction, and it’s illegal to call a simulated gemstone a synthetic stone. A synthetic stone must be identical in every way to the “real thing.”
Simulated gemstones sell for a much lower price than the synthetic ones. I just thought you might like to know!
Tags: manmade gems, synthetic gemstones