If yes, there are two affordable options you can consider when shopping for your wedding: cubic zirconia and lab-grown stones. A lab-grown diamond is exactly what its name suggests; it's a diamond ...

Soon after it was first marketed in 1976, colorless cubic zirconia became the dominant diamond imitation, with current production of approximately 60 million carats per year. Although cubic zirconia ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Cubic Zirconia – better known as "CZ" – are lab grown diamond simulates cut to mimic the color and brilliance of diamonds. Brian Driscoll from the Gemological ...

Over the past several years, diamond simulants have entered the market that consisted of colorless cubic zirconia reportedly coated with a thin layer (e.g., represented to be 30–50 nm) of ...