Blue-white

Blue-white: A term that has been used to refer to a diamond without body color. Unfortunately it is applied frequently (incorrectly and fraudulently) to diamonds that have a distinct yellow tint.

Blue-White
This is a false and misleading term. According to the FTC a diamond must be blue/bluish or colorless. Fluorescence is also a factor. AGS prohibits use of the term.
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Blue-White Diamond: An old marketing term meant to infer a diamond was of high quality - that is, so colourless it appears blue.

"BLUE-WHITE" - According to the Federal Trade Commission, only diamonds with a distinct blue body color may be traded as "blue-white.

Blue-white
An outdated term used to describe a diamond without body color, flagrant misuse has made the term meaningless
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Blue-White is an old term that's not used much today (it's frowned upon by the Jewelry Industry).
The term Blue-White is misleading and the FTC states clearly that it can only be used to describe a Diamond that has a Blue Fluorescence.

"BLUE-WHITE" - A term used for many years that refers to a diamond without a distinctive body color. It has been used inappropriately to describe yellow tinted stones. An American Gem Society ruling prohibits the use of this term by its members.

Blue-White Diamond
A jeweler tells you, "This is a blue-white diamond."
This is a very old term that is now carefully controlled by the FTC because of misuse and scams in the past.

Blue White, Blue-White
Originally describing near white diamonds with strong blue fluorescence, often misleadingly used or abused term to confer the idea of whiter than white.
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Colour âE' In the gemstone market the colour of this gemstone through which it is identified are blue-white, purple, buff, light tan, gray, yellow and brown.

The term "blue-white" Diamond is a misnomer, it is not a color grade, but instead it refers to the blue and white light that is reflected and refracted from a Diamond.

" Indian diamonds were note-worthy for their magnificent steely blue-white quality and their great hardness, and occasionally one comes on the market to-day with an authentic pedigree, tracing its origin back to the old Indian mines, ...

2 carats, blue-white in color and of fine quality, this magnificent gem claimed the status of largest diamond known in the world, surpassing all of the historic diamond discoveries in India, a record that country had proudly held for five centuries.

It possessed the fore mentioned blue-white color characteristic of the finest Jagersfontein diamonds, especially cleavages, and was of very fine quality, although there were a number of internal black spots, another Jagersfontein characteristic.

Sodalite: An opaque blue-white silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine, (sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride). It looks similar to Lapis, and is a component of Lapis, occurring in massive dodecahedrons and found in igneous rocks.

The tide of public preference may be shifting back to the blue-white diamond, but you want to be sure, when buying a diamond, that you examine it under a variety of conditions, such as sunlight and fluorescent light, ...

This irregular-shaped blue-white diamond was roughly 995 carats. It was found in l893 by a worker at the De Beers mine at Jagersfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. The Excelsior diamond was cut in 1904 by I.J.

Zircon: A common mineral occurring in small crystals which is heated, cut, and polished to form a brilliant blue-white gem used as a refractory when opaque and as a gemstone when transparent.. They are not man made stones like cubic zirconia are.

The term "blue-white" was replaced by "exceptional white", and "lightly tinted white" by "slightly tinted white". The division of the first two colors, "exceptional white" and "rare white" into two sub-croups is permissible only for sizes of 0.

Moonstone is a variety of albite feldspar and occur colorless, white, blue-white,and pale shades of peach and apricot.

A feldspar named after the blue-white sheen inherent, which can also produce moonstone cats' eye. 6-61/2 on the hardness scale. Cut in cabochon, always.
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Stifft, who soon confirmed that they were genuine blue-white diamonds of a "fine grade." Soon after, Huddleston sold his land for $36,000, and became nationally famous as "Diamond John" the "Diamond King." ...

The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metalloid. Yellow and black antimony are unstable non-metals. Antimony is used in flame-proofing, paints, ceramics, enamels, a wide variety of alloys, electronics, and rubber.

It belongs to the family of blue-white diamonds. William Punch Jones and Grover. C. Jones during pitching horseshoes found this diamond in the year 1928. For a span of fourteen years this rare gem was kept inside a cigar box.

Moonstone is a transparent to translucent gemstone that can have a yellow-brown to a blue-white sheen. Incoming rays of light are refracted inside the stone and scattered.

A brown to colorless mineral, which is heated, cut, and polished to form a brilliant blue-white gem.
Zoisite
A grey, brown, or pink mineral, used in ornamental stonework.

They are all very similar when cut into cabochons, they can best be distinguished by their different densities. Moonstone tends to be silver, pale green, pale blue, or creamy colored. It is translucent and shows a blue-white sheen sometimes called ...

The appellation “blue-white', now forbidden for diamond, indicate a stone with a very strong fluorescence masking its true color. In fact “blue white' diamonds can be in reality slightly, and sometimes even strongly, yellow or brown.

Moonstone:An iridescent feldspar mineral ranging from colorless to an array of hues including rainbow color and a milky, blue-white sheen. Moonstones are always cut as cabochons and rate a fairly fragile 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.

See also: Stone, Color, Diamond, Cut, Crystal