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• Sean Keller

  Another way to test if a diamond is real or not is to take 2 diamonds, and go up the Moh's scale 1 by 1 by scratching the diamonds to see if they will get marked. If you reach the number 10, it means that the diamond is real. If you get a score below a 10, the "diamond" is fake. While the fake diamonds are still pretty (:P) They are still very, very expensive. Got to Go now... oh, just one thing, . :D

  10/14/2009 1:18:20 PM
• Olivia Gibbs

  Hi,
  Another way someone can tell the differences from a fake and a real diamond by the density of the diamond. For example if the fake diamond particules are close to gether and the real diamond particules are not close together than you know the difference. Also if you could find the density of a real and fake diamond,then you could measure each diamond and know wchich one is fake and real.
  
  Bye for now,
  Oliva

  10/14/2009 1:20:32 PM
• maddie green

  whaz up my peeps answering the blog. i am not sure if this is even right or not but i think that you can tell if you throw a real diamond on the gruond it shouldn't break.i only think this because um..... oh yeah i watched the movie Flushed Away and rody said that if you shmashe a real ruby against the ground it would not break and i'm guessing that that goes for all minerals. people i want your oppinion on if it will work or not if you know the answer please type back!!!!!!! thanks my best homies!!!!! choi. i don't know if that was spelled right any way....BYE!!!!

  10/14/2009 1:24:16 PM
• Jordan Hartley

  You could use a microscope and look at it's molecular structure to see if it matches a diamonds. Jordan H.

  10/14/2009 1:24:48 PM
• jake moore

  i dont think there is another way to see if its a fake or not. the only accurate way to find it is by the mohs scale. i am sure one day a person will find a new way to see if its fake or not,but for right now we rely on the mohs scale to help us and hope for the best.

  10/14/2009 1:25:01 PM
• emelie watson

  another way someone could tell if a real diamond is fake is you could one find a real diamond at a store and bring the fake one with you and compare them and ask the person, and two you could also take a real and fake diamond and look at them in a microscope so you can really actually see the diffrence.

  10/14/2009 1:26:38 PM
• matt mcglynn

  You could scratch a the back of a tile with the "dimond". A real dimond will have the least damage. We did something kind of like that in a lab last year.

  10/14/2009 1:26:41 PM
• Alison Coye

  Hello all of you scientists,
  After I have read the reading, I know another way that you could tell the difference between a fake diamond, and a real diamond. In the reading, it says that you can tell a real diamond by it's hardness. If you could zoom in on a hard object, the particals would be tightly compacted. So to find out if a diamond is real or fake, you could find out what the particals look like in the diamond. If the particals in the diamond are tighty packed together, then you would know that it's a real diamond. If the particals are loosly packed, then you would know that it's fake.
  Happy Blogging,
  Alison Coye

  10/14/2009 1:29:06 PM
• Jake nichols

  Hi everybody.I think another way to tell a real dimond from a fake one would be to look at the way they grew ya" know like how they grow in caves and maybe there would be a difforense.

  10/14/2009 1:29:17 PM
• madison talbert

  someone can tell if the diamond is real or fake by comparing the mass of the diamond.a reak diamond would weigh more than a fake diamond.the lighter of the two "diamonds" would be the fake one.

  10/14/2009 1:30:03 PM
• Matt Gates

  One way that you can tell that a diamond is fake is by the hardness. diamonds are the hardest things in the world and if you scrach it with another object and can see the scrach than it is fake
  Matt Gates

  10/14/2009 1:34:40 PM
• Victoria Tsongalis

  Real diamonds are very hard. On a Moch Hardness scale I am pretty sure the diamond is a ten. A fake diamond(which I am pretty sure is cubic zirconia) would not be as hard as the real diamond. Diamonds will NOT leave a streak on a plate or a piece of tile, because the diamond is just as hard as the plate or the object it is being streaked against, so the streak would not come up, If I where to try and streak a cubic zirconia diamond, this would leave a streak because I am pretty sure that the cubic zirconia, is not as hard as a real diamond. So if you streaked the real diamond, it would not streak, because it is that hard. But if you streaked a fake diamond (usually cubic zirconia)the streak would come up... Also a lot of the times if you go to a store and they sell diamonds there, the box will say "cubic zirconia" if they are fake diamonds
  
  ~Torie (6S-1)

  10/14/2009 1:36:11 PM
• Kaitlyn Gilmore

  A.)I think that another way that a person could tell the difference between a real diamond and a fake diamond fake is by... finding out wether or not the diamond could be scratched if it can that means that it is fake if it cant be scratched but can scratch other things its a real diamond.Or you can feel it and maybe try to scratch it with your finger nail and take a magnifing glass and see if it got scrathed.
  
  Kaitlyn Gilmore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  10/14/2009 1:36:57 PM
• Abby Montalto

  another way a scientist can tell if it is fake or real is by its clearness. Real dimonds are not as clear as fake ones because fake ones are pure glass and are made up of diffrent materials that make it look clar and shiney real dimonds are kidave cloudy on the inside of it.

  10/14/2009 1:37:24 PM
• joe grasseschi

  Fake diamonds are very different from real diamonds. Diamonds are composed of carbon. Cubic zicronia is made of zirconium oxide with yttrium oxide. Moissanite is made from silicon and carbon. There are different ways to analyze materials to determine what they are.You can quickly determine if a material is cubic zirconia, or moissanite, or real diamond.
  Fake diamonds are made out of glass or of materials called cubic zirconia or moissanite.

  10/14/2009 1:38:14 PM
• ashley =)

  Another way someone could tell the difference between a real dimond and fake dimond is that a real dimond is hard and it can scratch any other thing like natural gems such as rubys and sapphire.

  10/14/2009 1:38:33 PM
• Faith Malone

  more dencity
  question- How do I know if a dimond is real or fake.
  answer- fake dimonds are made out of glass or cubic zirconia or moissanite. real dimonds you can only smash with another dimond. you can smash a fake dimond with a hammer. there are other faechers including smallinclosions of other minerals.

  10/14/2009 1:42:13 PM
• jordan landry

  Another way that you can determine if a diamond is fake or real is to take a real diamond and compare them to each other. if the materials match up to each other than you have a real diamond. but if it does not match it is unfortunately a fake.
  
  Jordan Landry

  10/14/2009 1:42:50 PM
• Dan Tedesco

  Someone could tell the difference between fake diamonds and real diamonds by scratching them because fake diamonds are made out of glass called cubic zirconia or moissanite. Real diamonds are a lot harder than fake diamonds. Real diamonds will scratch anything else. Fake diamonds can easily be scratched.

  10/14/2009 2:25:30 PM
• Hannah johnson

  another way is hit it with a hammer or somthing hard if it breaks it is fake.

  10/14/2009 2:28:42 PM
• Taylor Starkey

  Another way you could tell if it was real or not is you could scarch it. If it has a lot of scraches it is fake if it has about no scraches it is probably real.
  
  -Taylor Starkey

  10/14/2009 2:31:36 PM
• Jake mcgrath

  If you were rich enough to buy a real diamond and a fake one, one way to find out which one is wich is you take something that can break a rock like a baseball bat and hit each one. If the real diamond is realy real it would not brake and for the other one it would probably brake or crack Jake McGrath

  10/14/2009 2:33:00 PM
• tim lange

  another way of finding out if its real or not may be seeing how strong they are by hitting them with a hammer. if it was made out of glass iim sure it would brake if you hit it with a hammer but if you had a real diamond and hit it with a hammer it may not brake because they are the strongest stone
  
  Tim lange

  10/14/2009 2:37:01 PM
• Shannon Smith

  Useually if the gem/dimiond is cloudy that means its fake. If your dimind is real it will probuly be real. Plus if its gold you caqn do what they did in the old time with gold and bite on it I never understood that?
  Shannon Smith

  10/14/2009 2:50:39 PM
• Jacob Sackett

  Density Take 2:
  
  I think that another way someone can tell if a diamond is real or fake, is by the features each one has. I think that that a real diamond would be shinier than a fake diamond. Also, a fake diamond could fog up, and maybe you won't see through one; real diamonds you can see through. Fake diamonds would also not be as hard as real diamonds. Real diamonds would be really hard to scratch, abut fake diamonds would get scratched very easily. Also real diamonds would be hard to make a indent in or bump, but a fake diamond would be very easy to make in indent or bump. Also, real diamonds probably don't get holes in them, but fake diamonds probably will.There are alot of ways to tell real diamonds and fake diamonds apartt with their own features.
  
  ~Jacob Sackett~
  

  10/14/2009 3:03:20 PM
• kali orn

  One way you could try to check if the ''diamond''is real or not is if you try to scratch glass with the ''diamond'',or you could try to break the ''diamond''.Another way you could test if the ''diamond''is real, is to try to sratch it with a ruby.If it scratches, it is a fake.

  10/14/2009 3:05:16 PM
• veronica szymczak

  another way i think someone could test if a diamond was real or not is if you blow hot air onto it. if the diamond fogs up it is real, if it doesn't fog up it is not real.
  
  
  veronica s. :o

  10/14/2009 3:07:39 PM
• Jill Scannell

  A way to figure out if a diamond is a real diamond or a fake, you take the so called diamond and scratch it against a non-valuable piece of quarts or a gem. If the diamond scratches the gem/quarts you can tell if it is real. If it doesn't scratch the gem/quarts you will know that it is not a real diamond.

  10/14/2009 3:15:08 PM
• meaghan riedle

  A nother reason you can tell a diomond is fake is that a real diomond has a hardness of 10 on the Moh's scale which is a relitive scale of hardness in minerals. A real diomend would scrach any other gem such as emerald and rubys.
  Meaghan Rielde:)

  10/14/2009 3:26:17 PM
• Brian Bartlett

  Another way you could tell the difference between a real diamond or a fake one is you could do what Archimedes did. You could drop both a real diamond and another diamond into there own containers of water and see if the real diamond nocks out the same amount of water as the other diamond. If it does than the other diamond is real but if the other diamond nocks out less water than it is a fake because a real diamond is probably really dense because it is so strong and a fake one isn't as dense. Or you could just do it the easier way and find the volume and the mass and divide the mass by the volume and find out the density.
  
  Brian Bartlett 10/14/09

  10/14/2009 3:35:04 PM
• molly mcnamara

  hello!!
  One way to tell if a diamond is fake or real is by its hardness. Real diamonds are the hardest out of all of the minerals. On a scale of 1 to 10 diamond is the hardest mineral , it is a 10. Fake diamonds are often made out of glass. That is what I know on how you can tell a fake diamond from a real diamond.
  bye!!

  10/14/2009 3:57:07 PM
• mikayla hebert

  They way you can tell the difference between a real diamond and a fake diamond is that a real diamond would scratch any thing and a fake one won't. Also you can tell because on a Moh's scale a real diamond would have a 10 and a fake one would have a 8.5 or 9.25 and a Moh's scale tells how hard a mineral is a real diamond is the hardest material so if your diamond measures a 10 it is real and if it doesn't it is fake.
  Mikayla Hebert

  10/14/2009 4:06:20 PM
• Lucas Smith

  Hello,
  Another way to find out if a diamond is to smash it with a hammer hard enough to dent a fake diamond.
  
  Lucas Smith

  10/14/2009 4:07:27 PM
• Jack Blair

  Another way that I could test to see if a diamond is real or fake is take a block that you know is just barely not heavy enough to break a real diamond. Then take the diamonds that you want to test and drop the block on them on at a time. If one of the diamonds (or what you think is a diamond) breaks, then it is not a real diamond. If you test one and it does not break, it is a real diamond. This will work because a real diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, it gets a ten on the Moe's scale, and the next best diamond that is fake get a 9.5 on the Moe's scale.
  
  
  that's all I have to say!
  -Jack
  
  

  10/14/2009 4:18:52 PM
• Bill Dowd

  Another way to test if a diamand is fake is to check how dense the diamand is. Mabye a real diamand is more compact than the fake.
  Bill

  10/14/2009 4:31:19 PM
• Bill Dowd

  Oh and my responce is on 10/15/09
  Bye
  Bill

  10/14/2009 4:32:55 PM
• Quentin Brock

  Fake diamonds are usually made of glass and can be easily scratched by a steel file or a peace of quarts or other other gems like say... ruby! Diamonds don't scratch as easily.

  10/14/2009 4:36:06 PM
• sean stlaurent

  real diamonds are unscratchable and fake diamonds are breakable.

  10/14/2009 5:05:53 PM
• Shaynan Beando

  There are many ways to figure out if a dimond is real or fake.
  Here are some ways to figure out if it is a REAL dimond.
  
  REAL
  -Real dimonds are the hardest
  natural occuring material
  
  -Real dimonds will scratch
  anything including Fake
  dimonds
  
  -Real dimonds are made of
  pure carbon
  
  FAKE
  -Most fake dimonds are made
  out of a glass like material
  called Zirconia or moissanite
  
  -Fake dimonds can be scratched
  by steel
  
  -Fake dimonds have the hardness
  of 8.5 or 9.25
  
  That's all I know!!!
  
  -Shaynan :)
  
  

  10/14/2009 5:48:51 PM
• Shaynan Beando

  Sorry I forgot to put the Date. It is 10/15/09
  
  -Shaynan :)

  10/14/2009 5:50:44 PM
• ben quiry

  try to scratch it with another diamind,if it scratches it's fake and if it doesn't scratch it it's real
  
  Ben Quiry

  10/14/2009 6:17:45 PM
• nick george

  you can tell if a diamond is real or not bylokking at it closely and seeing if it is glass.fake diamonds are usaully glass.you can also tell if real if it you feel its hardness.diamonds are the hardestmineral in the world and they are really strong<it can scratch anything.fake diamonds are glass and can be easily scrathed.that is my homework assigment for mr.stark for tonight.well see all of 6s-4 tommorrow. bye guys
  
  nick george

  10/14/2009 6:18:42 PM
• Jenn Ross

  Well hello fellow classmates,
  One way you can tell if a diamond ia real is with the Mohs hardness scale. You could test this with a steel file or a nail. A "real" diamond for say would not scratch or chip like it's cousin the saphire. Another way to tell is to have it shipped off to a lab were they can test compackedness of the diamond. A fake diamond's substance would not match the real diamond's,so this tells it is fake.
  hope we all learn something new!!!!
  ~Jenn Ross~

  10/14/2009 6:34:37 PM
• Amie Tuttle

  One way you can tell if a diamond is fake or not by scratching the diamond on moissanite.If it the diamond does scratch it it is real. Only diamond can scratch moissanite.A fake diamond is not as hard as a real one.
  
  Amie Tuttle

  10/14/2009 6:41:59 PM
• Nick Behonick

  Hey every one . There are tons of ways to tell a fake diamond from a real one . One way is scratching it with a steel file . Another way is to check if it is glass (which is pretty simple jut throw it on the ground). Finally you can check if a diamond is real or not by putting it in a X-ray .
  
  - Nick Behonick

  10/14/2009 7:23:45 PM
• Madisen Morris

  one way that you can tell the differnce frome a real dimond to a fake one is the hardness. it is the hardness because a real dimond can scratch mostly anything. A fake dimond can only scartch surten things because it is not as hard.
  Madisen Morris BYE :)

  10/14/2009 8:10:01 PM
• Rachel Pray

  A few ways to differ a fake diamond from a real one is to check/study their composition. A real diamond is composed purely, nakedly by pure carbon, while a fake diamond mainly contains zirconium oxide and a teaspoon of yttrium oxide, sometimes. Also, to tell if its a real diamond there are very scarce or none at all evidence of inclusions, or flaws. On the other hand, possibly, they are fairly primitive and easy to see, with the help of a jeweler's loupe. Something else that differs fake diamonds from real ones is their hardness. A real diamond can easily scratch a fake diamond, or other multicolored gem, and has an impeccable hardness of 10, being the best on Moh's hardness scale. Glimpsing at fake diamonds with a 8.5- 9.25 hardness, they follow closely behind. A fake diamond can also be damaged by a steel file,too. Pure diamonds are made from Mother Nature, one of her strongest minerals, in fact, while cubic circonium and moissanite is probably man-made. You may also use intricately advanced, modern technology to comprehend a diamond, such as an electron micrscope or an x-ray difractormeter to determine the substances, compactness,minerals, inclusions, and hardness of a diamond. Much can be unearthed, scraped away and polished off in one reading about the density of fake diamonds and real ones.

  10/14/2009 8:24:45 PM
• ryan wiinikka

  a way you could tell is if you scrach anything with a real diamond it will leave a scrach because it's the worlds hardest natural thing, and if it's fake it won't scrach everything else like a real diamond. ryan wiinikka

  10/14/2009 9:16:28 PM
• danny litchfield

  i think you could tell by the way it looks a real diamond would look different then a fake

  10/15/2009 12:24:27 PM
• scott duncan

  another way you can test to see if the diamand is real is a scrach test if it gets a 10 it is a real diamand if it is a 1-9 it is fake =)
  
  scott

  10/15/2009 2:24:11 PM
• Luke Schiemann

  You can use the Moh's scale to test the diamonds hardness. You can also try scratching something agaist the diamond and if it leaves a scratch then it is a fake

  10/15/2009 3:47:15 PM
• MrStark

  Excellent job everyone. We had 100% participation from every student! Many of you brought up great points and ideas that I think are reaching well past the kiddie pool. A few ideas are solid but could use a boost of thought (this way we could take the orange swimmies off!). And a few of you definitely took a double back flip off of a 50 foot diving board! You are all definitely gems in my book.
  
  Mr. Stark
  
  PS sorry for all of the puns!

  10/15/2009 8:29:42 PM
• erin cooney

  you can see if a diamonds are real or not by many different ways.one way you can test it is real by trying to scratch rubys and other minerals with a diamond.also diamonds are the hardest of all minetals thats why it has a ten on the Moh's scale. the last way you can tell if it is real is you can use a jewlers loupe or a microscope to look for small inclusions.

  10/15/2009 8:49:47 PM
• Emelie Watson

  amie
  I thought that was a good way to tell if a diamond is fake or not. But not to be rude it said another way you could tell if a diamond is fake or not.

  10/26/2009 5:50:35 PM
• Emelie Watson

  since you did two blogs about density and mr. stark told you about you are getting good at density and what it is.
  good job amie
  

  10/26/2009 6:02:33 PM