Actually you have a wonderful Portuguese cut Moissanite that has a MOH hardness of 9.5-9.6. Corundum is only a MOH 9. So Moissanite will cut and scratch your Ruby.
@@pitviper7924 that’s what I’m saying this person can’t tell it’s moissanite through a video some shop owners in the diamond district can’t even tell lab grown from natural
ok... PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU WRITE one nice comment out of 12 or more telling me I'm a butthead which I already know .. fer sure.. since probably before you were born. I am trying to teach you how to do a simple hardness test.. I used stones big enough to see. . for all of you just waiting to tell me what they are or about my mental health... please watch the video.. please Google the Moh's scale of hardness... I could have used any two ..these are what are laying around my messy shop at the moment... no worries... I know what they are... I also know how hard they are.. which is a large part of mineral identification... I am a geologist that is what this is all about
now. . drum roll... bugles do you have Google Earth? if you thought I might be a butthead before.... see all the deserts everywhere... gold colored... most of that stuff is actually gold platinum and gold palladium alloy... in little microscopic or submicroscopic crystals that are also 10 on the Moh's scale of hardness... I live along the Gila River and have been checking .. I live in the Sierra Estrella... I checked there too... and I live at the head of Rainbow Valley full of that gold colored stuff... I checked. .more than once... I have lived here for almost 35 years doing graduate level field work.. I checked
the whitest of the dust is called kaolinite clay... we make ceramic plates out of the same stuff I get platinum from... plates and platinum... it's very useful... stuff
Then say you are using a Moissanite and not a diamond. I have real diamonds that size. That’s because we are a High Jewelry house. We would never take a cut and polished diamond and use it to scratch another diamond. If that were a real blue diamond; it would be worth $50M. So if you are going educate people. Tell the whole truth.
Hello Richard! 🙋🏻♀️I know you from Pinterest, I lost touch with you some time ago, its great to see you here! Im just hanging out with the people who are always looking down at rocks or looking up at the stars.I hope you and the "Starfire Family" are well and happy. ✨
Soooo..a 180 ct portugese cut blue diamond. And to top it off a nice 30 ish ct pear also in blue... for real now, the red raw stone is a garnet and the blue "diamonds" are most likely topaz.
While I loves scratch tests, I point out that moissanite with a Mohs Hardness of 9.25 will also scratch corundum ( e.g. ruby or sapphire). Distinguishing moissanite from diamond cannot be done with a diamond tester ( they're both conductive), but is easy under polarized light as moissanit is anisotrophic and desplays birefringence.
have you actually checked the information? what I'm trying to teach is how to do a simple hardness test... please allow me the benefit of the doubt i nothing else... I am not trying to sell my rocks. .ok? it's perfectly harmless... no worries mate
Moissanite is the great liar when it comes to the diamond trade. We are grateful at our company to have modern equipment that can distinguish between even the best Moissanite simulants. It truly hurts me when people bring me these massive Moissanite stones that they bought as diamonds and I have to tell them that they got scammed. Average Moissanite has colors of sintaltion that diamonds do not posses. There are some really good pieces of Moissanite though that lack the color and are being passed off as diamond. We do have XRF and IR to identify Moissanite, HTHP and CVD diamonds. But anyone who has been through the GIA will probably look at under a microscope. Because even an internally flawless diamond still has certain features only found in a diamond.
A number of today's diamond testers are multi-testers, they gauge both thermal as well as electrical conductivity. they can conveniently compare diamonds and Moissanite, as diamonds are not electrically conductive only thermally conductive. So therefore your comment really has no ground if you ask me..
@@RickarooCarew very very nice precious gems even if the "blue diamond" is manmade it was still a great demonstration about hardness testing !!!🤩💙🖤💙🤘🏻New to your channel, very glad RUclips recommend you to me! It's nice to meet you🤗
joke video? a 180 ct. blue diamond would be one of the worlds well documented gems, not something you would risk testing out of an aluminum pan. the ruby could be ruby or a jasper, the whole thing is highly suspicious. a blue topaz will scratch jasper, and the stone looks like topaz rather than diamond. also, who would risk breaking the culet on a museum quality diamond? diamond is hard but it will break as well. no i do not believe this is diamond and ruby. i have never seen a moissanite so large but the ones i have seen are not this color. what he does show is what a diamond can do to corundum.
If thats a diamond..... Then you would be a really really rich man. To my knowledge there is no diamond un atended of that size and absolutely not handeld like you did. Dont get me wrong the scratch test i love because thats true.. but its visibility not scratching the ruby.
good caveat... to my knowledge... my videos are specifically for the purpose of increasing your knowledge... please join the fun... I have no money .. fer sure... but I have a lot of cool stuff, this is just how to do a simple hardness test.. and you too can check.. that's the only way to increase your knowledge...
it does actually scratch the ruby... more than once.. diamond is the only thing that can... I was told about Moisanite the other day.. supposedly 9.5... he said 9.25... diamond is 100,000 times harder than ruby... it forms at over 3800° C... nothing else is solid at that temperature .... silicon carbide forms at a slightly lower temperature.. the silicon is a vapor inside the planes of cleavage between the carbon unit cells.. I am not trying to sell anything.. all... 100,% of the information available about diamonds and silicon carbide comes from the DeBeers monopoly
That definitely ain’t a diamond. With a diamond you shouldn’t be able to see straight through it with if you are looking through the table of the gem. I highly doubt that’s a ruby either. It looks like a dyed stone.
ok... what you will find with red jasper is >> completely opaque... and a glassy, undifferentiated structure... now... look at my ruby... it's from the Mogok region of Myanmar ... I bought it for this exact purpose.. with your red jasper... you can also scratch a ruby or sapphire... it is actually silicon carbide and shares the same structure as diamond. if you do your own tests... then you will know too... the Buddha said we should not take his teaching on faith, but, rather we should test everything... this little bit of wisdom applies to everything in life... namaste 🙏🏼
the first rock I ever asked questions about was said to be quartz... by my physicist and nuclear weapons engineer dad... I was 7.. living in west Germany at the time, near Idar Oberstein... I was 7 in 1960
Мне они вообще не нужны, кроме моей науки... мои драгоценные камни, золото и платина являются частью Семейной Коллекции StarFire, находящейся в доверительном управлении Людей Планеты Земля. ✌️
it should.. you're correct... quartz is supposed to be 7 on the Moh's scale of hardness. . this video is showing you how to check... start with a known diamond... scratch a ruby or sapphire... it works. the Moh's scale is not something I made up.. probably you know that.... keep using the diamond and try to scratch quartz or just tell me I'm a butthead... either one is fine 🙂
here's a suggestion on recording more and getting more fans... I don't know when you put that little bit in your profile, brother. but no videos after 5 years indicates something about the desire to record more... and 2 followers... for some reason I haven't figured out yet.. the biggest thing about getting more follows is to be nice... you will be glad you did 🙏🏼 namaste
generally they are perfectly hexagonal... 6 sides.. all the same size and usually a flat, tabular crystal.. sometimes a longer z axis...more barrel shaped... but the hexagon structure is really obvious... there is a commercial hardness test kit for concrete that goes up to 9... or.. 40 years of geology and chemistry... with all of my life collecting rocks... actually I started when I was 7... so 63 years
you can also buy a few on eBay... cheap...this one came from Myanmar supposedly from the Mogok region... if you are interested in ruby and sapphire there's lots of information available online and in books... have fun...please
there's actually a whole mountain over there in Kashmir I think that is obviously all aluminum oxide... if you spend some time on Google Earth you might find it... there is also one, at least... in New Mexico here in the US
that is the stone I'm using to test the hardness of a diamond... the diamond is blue... a bit smaller... the video takes a couple minutes to show how to do a hardness test. very easy... thanks for watching
si... esta corundum... 150 grams Apenas estoy empezando a cortarlo... hay un hermoso brillo dorado debajo del rojo en algunas direcciones... pero sin asterismo. . desde Myanmar... Burma... y el Mogok regiòn
watch the video and find out... the video is actually about a couple of smaller blue stones... perfectly clear... everything becomes perfectly clear and you won't have to guess salaam ✌️
Amazing specimens! Nice way to demonstrate the Moh's hardness scale
Actually you have a wonderful Portuguese cut Moissanite that has a MOH hardness of 9.5-9.6. Corundum is only a MOH 9. So Moissanite will cut and scratch your Ruby.
Proof that it’s moissanite and not diamond?
@@HighTotally420 I would say the owner of the material is the one that should rule it out. How can @Aerodauphin test it?
@@pitviper7924 that’s what I’m saying this person can’t tell it’s moissanite through a video some shop owners in the diamond district can’t even tell lab grown from natural
@rustytr I never said they could
Who on God's green earth would f*ck around with 1/4 million dollars worth of real diamonds. One move the wrong way and he's scr*wed.
so beautiful jem stone lovely too
ok... PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU WRITE
one nice comment out of 12 or more telling me I'm a butthead which I already know .. fer sure.. since probably before you were born.
I am trying to teach you how to do a simple hardness test.. I used stones big enough to see. .
for all of you just waiting to tell me what they are or about my mental health... please watch the video.. please Google the Moh's scale of hardness... I could have used any two ..these are what are laying around my messy shop at the moment... no worries... I know what they are... I also know how hard they are.. which is a large part of mineral identification...
I am a geologist
that is what this is all about
now. . drum roll... bugles
do you have Google Earth?
if you thought I might be a butthead before.... see all the deserts everywhere... gold colored...
most of that stuff is actually gold platinum and gold palladium alloy... in little microscopic or submicroscopic crystals that are also 10 on the Moh's scale of hardness... I live along the Gila River and have been checking .. I live in the Sierra Estrella... I checked there too... and I live at the head of Rainbow Valley full of that gold colored stuff... I checked. .more than once... I have lived here for almost 35 years doing graduate level field work.. I checked
and you are probably right.. I am a butthead
the whitest of the dust is called kaolinite clay... we make ceramic plates out of the same stuff I get platinum from... plates and platinum... it's very useful... stuff
Then say you are using a Moissanite and not a diamond. I have real diamonds that size. That’s because we are a High Jewelry house. We would never take a cut and polished diamond and use it to scratch another diamond. If that were a real blue diamond; it would be worth $50M. So if you are going educate people. Tell the whole truth.
@@RickarooCarew Yes Richard thank you for sharing all your AuPt with me! ✨
Hello Richard! 🙋🏻♀️I know you from Pinterest, I lost touch with you some time ago, its great to see you here! Im just hanging out with the people who are always looking down at rocks or looking up at the stars.I hope you and the "Starfire Family" are well and happy. ✨
Soooo..a 180 ct portugese cut blue diamond. And to top it off a nice 30 ish ct pear also in blue... for real now, the red raw stone is a garnet and the blue "diamonds" are most likely topaz.
While I loves scratch tests, I point out that moissanite with a Mohs Hardness of 9.25 will also scratch corundum ( e.g. ruby or sapphire). Distinguishing moissanite from diamond cannot be done with a diamond tester ( they're both conductive), but is easy under polarized light as moissanit is anisotrophic and desplays birefringence.
20 dollar cut Mossanite... come back when you find some...
thanks bro 🙏🏼
have you actually checked the information?
what I'm trying to teach is how to do a simple hardness test... please allow me the benefit of the doubt i nothing else... I am not trying to sell my rocks. .ok? it's perfectly harmless... no worries mate
Moissanite is the great liar when it comes to the diamond trade. We are grateful at our company to have modern equipment that can distinguish between even the best Moissanite simulants. It truly hurts me when people bring me these massive Moissanite stones that they bought as diamonds and I have to tell them that they got scammed. Average Moissanite has colors of sintaltion that diamonds do not posses. There are some really good pieces of Moissanite though that lack the color and are being passed off as diamond. We do have XRF and IR to identify Moissanite, HTHP and CVD diamonds. But anyone who has been through the GIA will probably look at under a microscope. Because even an internally flawless diamond still has certain features only found in a diamond.
A number of today's diamond testers are multi-testers, they gauge both thermal as well as electrical conductivity. they can conveniently compare diamonds and Moissanite, as diamonds are not electrically conductive only thermally conductive. So therefore your comment really has no ground if you ask me..
@@RickarooCarew very very nice precious gems even if the "blue diamond" is manmade it was still a great demonstration about hardness testing !!!🤩💙🖤💙🤘🏻New to your channel, very glad RUclips recommend you to me! It's nice to meet you🤗
Mostly (Ruby-Sapphire)Corundum ❤
Make ASMR perfect glass cutting, you cut glass perfectly using diamonds
Diamond is a 10 on the Mohs hardness scale.
u related to the Carew's in merritt island?
What is the value of each of the stones ?
2.3mill.
4000 million
Awesome scratch test!
Cool looking ruby!
Red jasper stone
joke video? a 180 ct. blue diamond would be one of the worlds well documented gems, not something you would risk testing out of an aluminum pan. the ruby could be ruby or a jasper, the whole thing is highly suspicious. a blue topaz will scratch jasper, and the stone looks like topaz rather than diamond. also, who would risk breaking the culet on a museum quality diamond? diamond is hard but it will break as well. no i do not believe this is diamond and ruby. i have never seen a moissanite so large but the ones i have seen are not this color. what he does show is what a diamond can do to corundum.
Looks like a red russet potatoe
you should see the diamond I use to scratch it with
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@@RickarooCarew 🤗👍
If thats a diamond..... Then you would be a really really rich man. To my knowledge there is no diamond un atended of that size and absolutely not handeld like you did. Dont get me wrong the scratch test i love because thats true.. but its visibility not scratching the ruby.
good caveat... to my knowledge... my videos are specifically for the purpose of increasing your knowledge... please join the fun... I have no money .. fer sure... but I have a lot of cool stuff, this is just how to do a simple hardness test.. and you too can check.. that's the only way to increase your knowledge...
it does actually scratch the ruby... more than once.. diamond is the only thing that can... I was told about Moisanite the other day.. supposedly 9.5... he said 9.25... diamond is 100,000 times harder than ruby... it forms at over 3800° C... nothing else is solid at that temperature .... silicon carbide forms at a slightly lower temperature.. the silicon is a vapor inside the planes of cleavage between the carbon unit cells.. I am not trying to sell anything.. all... 100,% of the information available about diamonds and silicon carbide comes from the DeBeers monopoly
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here's a question....
what is more valuable... lots of pictures of dead presidents
or true knowledge about carbon?
Correct... You caught him
A true diamond that color and size would be worth millions and to cut and polish it 10's of thousands of dollars.
That definitely ain’t a diamond. With a diamond you shouldn’t be able to see straight through it with if you are looking through the table of the gem. I highly doubt that’s a ruby either. It looks like a dyed stone.
Ola Richard vim deixar inscricao em seu canal pedras muito lindas like de seu amigo tunico
yo no puedo hablar Portuguese... puedo hablar un poco Español.. lo siento amigo... bienvenido
puedo lear Portuguesa ... pero no puedo hablar . lo quiero Español esta ok
tu estas un garimpo en Brasil..?
bienvenido amigo... bienvenido
Red jasper
Right.
@@siddharthachakraborty2961
find some red jasper please 🙏🏼
post a video here... please ✌️
ok... what you will find with red jasper is >>
completely opaque... and a glassy, undifferentiated structure... now... look at my ruby... it's from the Mogok region of Myanmar ... I bought it for this exact purpose..
with your red jasper... you can also scratch a ruby or sapphire... it is actually silicon carbide and shares the same structure as diamond. if you do your own tests... then you will know too... the Buddha said we should not take his teaching on faith, but, rather we should test everything... this little bit of wisdom applies to everything in life...
namaste 🙏🏼
the first rock I ever asked questions about was said to be quartz... by my physicist and nuclear weapons engineer dad... I was 7.. living in west Germany at the time, near Idar Oberstein... I was 7 in 1960
@@RickarooCarew sir give me your watsapp no.i sand my jasspar stone video and photo.
It is jaspar stone.not Rubi
That's not a diamond. Lack of fire
Old ways yes I do as well
works every time
thanks ✌️
herzliche glückwünsche, ein sehr schöner stein
vielen Dank 🙏🏼... Willkommen
essa pedra é muito bonita
Вот зачем они тебе? Отдай их в музей чтоб люди порадовались, тсы их держать сил нет
Мне они вообще не нужны, кроме моей науки... мои драгоценные камни, золото и платина являются частью Семейной Коллекции StarFire, находящейся в доверительном управлении Людей Планеты Земля.
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No they are not diaments beacose Diamont gonna scratch the qwartz stone and the line Will stay
it should.. you're correct... quartz is supposed to be 7 on the Moh's scale of hardness. . this video is showing you how to check... start with a known diamond... scratch a ruby or sapphire... it works. the Moh's scale is not something I made up.. probably you know that.... keep using the diamond and try to scratch quartz
or just tell me I'm a butthead... either one is fine 🙂
here's a suggestion on recording more and getting more fans... I don't know when you put that little bit in your profile, brother. but no videos after 5 years indicates something about the desire to record more... and 2 followers... for some reason I haven't figured out yet.. the biggest thing about getting more follows is to be nice... you will be glad you did 🙏🏼 namaste
it's 12 noon here in Arizona... please remove your negative comment
Wooow amazing 😱😱😱😱😁👍
Hey richard how do we know that it is ruby?
generally they are perfectly hexagonal... 6 sides.. all the same size and usually a flat, tabular crystal.. sometimes a longer z axis...more barrel shaped... but the hexagon structure is really obvious... there is a commercial hardness test kit for concrete that goes up to 9...
or.. 40 years of geology and chemistry... with all of my life collecting rocks... actually I started when I was 7... so 63 years
you can also buy a few on eBay... cheap...this one came from Myanmar supposedly from the Mogok region... if you are interested in ruby and sapphire there's lots of information available online and in books... have fun...please
the video is about a blue diamond... no one says anything about it.. ???
there's actually a whole mountain over there in Kashmir I think that is obviously all aluminum oxide... if you spend some time on Google Earth you might find it... there is also one, at least... in New Mexico here in the US
It's definitely rough ruby
Looks like a red potato
🤣
Ha ha ha diamond????
Aku mau bos
Турмалин Параиба ?
Sir, get out of your dream world and come back to reality. Those are NOT diamonds. You wish they were.
No it's not
Corindon
that is the stone I'm using to test the hardness of a diamond... the diamond is blue... a bit smaller... the video takes a couple minutes to show how to do a hardness test. very easy...
thanks for watching
si... esta corundum...
150 grams
Apenas estoy empezando a cortarlo... hay un hermoso brillo dorado debajo del rojo en algunas direcciones... pero sin asterismo.
. desde Myanmar... Burma... y el Mogok regiòn
Its not
Rubi.or diamond..
watch the video and find out... the video is actually about a couple of smaller blue stones... perfectly clear... everything becomes perfectly clear and you won't have to guess
salaam ✌️
if you need translation I can certainly provide the transcript in any language
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