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Your answer depends on the composition of the 'fake diamond' and the composition of glass. Each mineral has a rating on the Mohs Scale of hardness. The harder mineral will scratch the softer mineral.
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Why glass cannot cut diamonds?
Diamond is the hardest mineral on earth. So a diamond can cut glass, but glass cannot cut a diamond.
Can a diamond cut through paper?
yes a diamond can even cut through metal and glass so paper would be no problem.
Why do people check to see if a diamond is real by rubbing it against glass?
Because diamonds are extremely hard and will cut glass. Diamond is the hardest material.
What property of diamond lets them cut through glass?
Diamond is the hardest mineral known, on the 1-10 Mohs scale of mineral hardness, diamond is rated as 10.
Is diamond more dense than glass?
Diamonds are denser and harder than glass, as diamonds can score glass - as in a diamond glass-cutter.
How can you tell the difference between a diamond and a fake dimand?
A real diamond will cut glass.
Do fake diamonds cut glass?
A proper glass cutter will be tipped with real diamond. A fake diamond may be used to cut something in an attempt to prove that it is not fake. Take your jewelery to a local jeweler to test the stone; that will help you determine whether or not the diamond is fake. Swiping glass with anything except a cleaning cloth could be considered vandalism.
How can you tell a diamond is not real without all the hytech stuff?
a real diamond can cut glass, a fake diamond cant.
Can diamond or emeralds cut glass?
A diamond will cut glass -- an emerald will not.
Why glass cannot cut diamonds?
Diamond is the hardest mineral on earth. So a diamond can cut glass, but glass cannot cut a diamond.
How can I tell if the stones in my ring are real diamonds?
Real diamonds will cut glass, though there is speculation that some fake diamonds can cut glass, and that you can damage a real diamond by cutting glass with it. Another way to tell is to hold the diamond up in the light. If you see any orange color from the diamond, it is fake, as real diamonds have every color EXCEPT orange.
Is glass hard or diamond hard?
Diamond is hardest Diamond cuts glass Glass does not cut diamond
Can American diamonds cut glass?
Any diamond can 'cut glass' in the sense that dragging the diamond stone across glass will mar the glass.
Can a cz diamond cut glass?
A cubic zirconia WILL cut glass. The way to tell it apart from a REAL diamond is that only a real diamond will cut a cubic zirconia.
How can you tell the difference between a real diamond or a fake?
scratch the diamond against glass...if it scratches its real if it doesn't its fake
Can a diamond cut glass?
yes
What evidence could you use to determine if you have a real diamond?
The time-honored test, that is the common and traditionally suggested practice when no microscopes for looking at it's inclusions (flaws) and characteristics are available, is to see if it will cut glass. It takes an extremely hard substance to cut glass and glass does not cut glass, so you can rule out that it is a fake made from glass in that way.
