When we get to hear terms like brilliance and refractive index while buying any jewellery, or gemstone, it certainly leaves us with a question mark in mind, as to what does it mean by high or low brilliance and refractive index, and how does it impact the value of any gemstone or best moissanite engagement rings jewellery!

Well, here is the answer to all your queries!

We will guide you as to what’s the importance of these terms and how much does it impact a gemstone’s value. 

If your jeweler also guides you with such details, you can be sure that it’s the best place to buy moissanite because it’s hard to find such stores where you get such genuine and clear descriptions about gemstones.

In simple terms, brilliance means ‘reflection’ of white light from a gemstone. Whereas the refractive index measures a gem’s ‘ability’ to bend the light. 

It’s all a game of light that enters the gemstone and reflects back to your naked eye. When people buy gemstones or jewelry, it is the jewelry’s sparkle, glitter, and shine that attracts and prompts them to buy it. It is more of a visual thing, the fire and the shimmer that shows back into the eyes. 

In order to understand brilliance, it’s better that you know what do these two terms mean:

1.  Refractive Index
2.  Dispersion

Whenever you choose to buy black moissanite engagement rings, check for its refractive index specifically.  

A refractive index essentially means that when the light enters the gemstone, how much does the light bend inside it. If the refractive index is more, then the light bends more inside the gemstone and bounces back with high brilliance and shine. 

If the refractive index is low, the light might not bend much and thus a gemstone will have a moderate shine and shimmer.

Now, how does a bend of light impacts any gemstone’s sparkle and what does it mean by bending?

In simple terms, if we compare two gemstones i.e. Moissanite and Diamond, which bend most of the light. A diamond is a single refraction and moissanite is a double refraction gemstone.  

So if a diamond is a single refractive stone, it means that the light that will pass through it will bend or disperse in just ‘one’ direction. And in the case of moissanite which has double refraction, will disperse the light into ‘two’ directions when it enters into it. These refractions determine a gemstone’s beauty and brilliance along with the refractive index.

How?

It’s very simple,

When any gemstone whether it’s diamond or other has single refraction, it will disperse the light in ‘one’ direction along with its refractive index, the more the index, the more it bends the light deep inside the gemstone, the deeper the light goes, the more it bounces around in the gemstone, and  bounces back into the crown, and hits your eyes, with highest sparkling brilliance. 

And as the diamond has a refractive index of 2.41, just second highest to moissanite, it will spark out immense shine and shimmer.

The black moissanite earrings also hold a very high refractive index and brilliance. 

Whereas moissanite is a double refractive gemstone with the highest refractive index, which means two things:

1. It disperses the light into ‘two’ directions entering into it.
2.  Moissanite holds the world’s highest refractive index of 2.65 which means it has the highest capacity of bending the light to the deepest down inside of it,

The deeper the light enters, it bounces more inside the gemstone and gets back out with the highest sparkle and brilliance.  

Before moissanite was discovered, a diamond was considered to hold the world’s most high refractive index. 

In short, if there is a higher refractive index, it bends the light much more, and also depending upon how the gemstones are cut, if it is cut in a more specific way, it will reflect light more back into the crown and then back into your eyes and that’s what typically people like, the outcoming brilliance and sparkle. 

San Moissan 

San Moissain is the market leader and the best moissanite jewelers in selling the beauty, brilliance, and unparalleled clarity of Moissanite. 

Quality is our first thought! 

We are also one of the best place to buy moissanite online, you can visit our site at www.sanmoissan.in.

We offer the best price moissanite rings, pendants, and earrings  starting from just Rs.2,999. San Moissan is a family-owned company with deep roots in the fine jewellery business. Our expertise with gemstones goes back to three generations, providing top quality moissanite jewellery ever.

It was hard for us to believe that any other gem could beat a diamond in brilliance and value. But examining moissanite under a jeweler’s loupe was the tipping point – we were amazed to find that after years in the gem business, we couldn’t differentiate it from a diamond. In fact, the clarity, colorlessness, fire, and radiance were truly incredible. It was clear that moissanite was the future of fine jewelry, and that’s when San Moissan was born. 

Unlike many competitors, our moissanite comes in true colorless and near-colorless quality without any secondary hues. With state-of-the-art precision cutting technology operated by skilled cutters, each moissanite fire jewelry is guaranteed to be ideally cut for optimal fire and brilliance – whether it’s our classical round, fancy shapes, hearts and arrows collection, or beyond!

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