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Will a ruby scratch a diamond?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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Not a real diamond, no.

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Ruby has a hardness of 9 on Mohs scale of hardness . So any gemstone with hardness more than 9 would scratch a ruby and that includes, diamond, synthetic moizzanite and synthetic diamond.


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