The Pantera webstore
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The Pantera webstore
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Mail: aquila_grande@yahoo.no
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To see cosmetics and apparel, please go further down
Please see below for information about diamonds
Jewelry, watches, fashion, cosmetics
Welcome to this online store where you can find quality items for an affordable prize. Pleace click on the banners to learn more or to make a purchase.
Good online stores of jewelry and watches
Italian jewelry and luxury apparel
- In this store yoiu can find products from worldwide recognized Italian jewelry and apparel artists and also works from local high class designers of jewelry, adorns and artistic home decors. Please click at this product link to go into this shop.
Body jewels and adorns - Nice jewelry and artistic pieces of the latest trends for your whole body. A great collection of piercing object made of noble metals and brilliantly colored gemstones.
Bidz jewelry auctions - Bid on all types of jewelry and vauable apparel from quality producents and get it for a very affordable prize.
Of diamonds adorns you can find . Diamond wedding rings, men's and ladie's diamond wedding Bands, diamond eternity Bands, diamond Studs, diamond earrings, diamond necklaces & pendants, diamond bracelets, diamond fashion rings and diamond watches You can also find exclusive diamond art pieces that there is only one of.
SuperJeweler - diamonds and much more - This shop is a general jeweler. It has e very great stock of diamnond jewelry.
Beautiful bullions and bars of silver and gold - Here You can find artistically designed bullions and bars made of 999 silver or 24 karat gold with various kind of modern, historical or mythological motives. Besides being very decorative, objects of silver and gold that are practical to handle and store has shown to be a secure investments in epochs of economical trouble.
TitaniumKey
- jewelry made of the toughest nobel materials there are - Jewelry made of extra rough and though noble materials, suited for active pople. These materials also have a special beauty different from the beauty of gold and silver that makes them good alternaties for any man or woman. You find pieces made of metals, semi-metals and cheramics like tungsten, zirconium, carbon fiber, titanium, wolfram, stailess steel or tungsten carbide. You also find jewelry of these materials combined or combined with yellow gold, silver or diamonds.
Jewelry and especially diamond jewelry - Allurez - Allurez Jewelers is the premier online jewelry store for high quality fine jewelry, designer jewelry, engagement rings, wedding bands, and certified loose diamonds. Here you can find: wedding rings, engagement rings, masonic rings, titanium rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces & bracelets, dress rings, pearls, opals, gifts for special occasions, religious jewelry, men's, hot diamonds , silver. In this shop you can also but loose diamonds.
These links go first to special parts of the store, but from there you can go furter to the whole store:
Watches
- Two good shops of quality watches for affordable prizes - Many brands are present like:Citizen, Casio, Chase-Durer, ESQ, Festina, Hamilton Watches, Hot Diamonds Watches, Mondaine, Movado, Oakley, Puma, Pulsar, QuadTec Watches, Reactor, Seiko Watches, Seiko Clocks, Skagen Watches , Suunto, Swiss Army Watches, Swiss Army Knives & Tools, Vintage & Pre-Owned, Watch Winders.Famous swisss brands present: Alpina, Anonimo, Bell & Ross, Carlo Ferrara, Chronoswiss, Dubey & Schaldenbrand, Ernst Benz , Fortis Watches, Glycine, Grimoldi, Harwood Watches, Jean Marcel, Revue Thommen, Tutima, Ventura Watches
Watches made of stainless steel, titanium, gold or silver. Watches of advanced technical designs: Cronographs, atomic watches, quarts watches. Watches for every kind of use: Dress watches, dive watches, sport watches.
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By clicking at this product link you come into the shop of eWaches.com where you can buy this particular waycth and browse for others.
Examples of the many products available
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Rock Crystal Charm For truly outstanding style, mix and match our charms with our on-trend pearl or crystal necklaces and bracelets. Charms are the perfect gift for yourself and for loved ones! Made with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS |
Scarfology.com - styly scarves
- Here you can find scarves of all shapes, colors and fabric type. There are traditional scarves and scarves of modern design. The shop is easy to navigate so use to find exactly that scarf that fits your personal style.
To find other inventories of exciting fashion clothes for men and women, please go here
An effective and clinically verified cream to treat stretchmarks
An effective and clinically proven cream to reduce wricles and aging signs
Valana minerals - Natural high end cosmetics for dark women - These cosmetic products are made of only botanical substances and colored mineral powders. The products give the right color tune suited for dark skinned women or women that will appear darker.
Protecting and caring make-up, skin care, body comfort products and tooth care items
Please go here to find more skin-care and anti-aging products
Useful information
efititions about noble metalsSome useful definitions about diamonds - down at this page
What is a diamond
A diamond constists of carbon, the same element that coal and graffit consist of. The carbon atoms in the whole diamond are bound together with four other neighbouring carbon atoms with covalent bonds. All the atoms form a regular network where the bonds are placed in the same angle to each other, and each carbon atom is connected to four others.
This network is not broken, except where there are found impurities and imperfections. Therefore a diamond crystal is actually one big molecule. This structure makes the diamond to the hardest material on earth with a strength of the degree of 10 on Mohr's scale. Therefore one can cut a diamond only by using diamond itself as a cutting material. A diamond is however to a certain degree brittle, and it does not manage much bending of any type before it breaks up. When a diamond breaks, it happens usually with a clean crack without any branching cracks. Therefore a diamond can be cleaved with a strong force applied with a sharp object.
The covalent crystal structure also makes a diamond able to bend light, spread the color of white light and reflect light from the innside in a considerable degree. Therefore a diamond have a strong reflection of lights in every color, so called brilliance. In a well cut diamond, the angles of the facets are made such that the reflection from the innside out of the diamond is maximized.
A diamond is usually not entirely pure chemically. Other materials can exist in the crystal lattice. These materials will often color the stone yellow, green, blue, brown or black. The color will often reduce the value of the diamond, but can occationally elevate the value if the color is especially beautiful without destroying the brilliance and clearity of the stone. Most diamnonds ar not perfectly crustallized, and consist of imurities of carbon in other physical configurations, making the color grey or black. Such diaminds have little value as gemstones, but are useful in technical applications.
To produce a diamond, carbon must be subjected to high temperature and high pressure in an oxygen-free environment. This is possible deep in the mantle of the earth. It is also possible to make diamonds artificially, nut until recently big enough diamonds of jewel quality have been difficult to make this way.
As the production of synthetic diamonds is perfectionated, diamonds are expected to be used in many new technical applications. The hardness of the substance makes it well suited for micromechanic constructions. The high refractive index and durability of diamonds make them suited for use as lenses and prisms in microoptical devices. Since also diamonds are highly elecrically insulating and have virtually no piezoelectric properties, they can be used as insulating and encapsulating devices for the active modules in microscopic detector devices, measuring devices and signalling devices of various kind.
Diamonds are not as rare as people is likely to think, but most diamonds are of bad quality aestetically. Those are however used extensively industrially in abrasive and cutting appliances.
There is also a rumour that also diamonds of high quality are fairly common, but that most diamonds taken up from the earth are hidden in great repositories and only gradually brought out to the market in order to keep the prize high.
Diamond craft and mineralogy definitions
Blemish:
A defect on the exterior of a diamond. This could
be a scratch, abrasion, nick or chip.
Blue-White:
This is a property of a diamond that glows (fluoresces) blue under
ultraviolet light. Such a diamond often looks oily and milky in sunlight.
However, Blue-White diamonds are not always oily and milky in daylight. There
are two kinds of fluorescence, good and bad. "Good" (blue) fluorescence makes a
faint yellow diamond look whiter because it cancels some of the yellow
appearance. A white diamond looks crisper, like a "bluing" agent on a white
shirt. A blue-white diamond used to be well prized and greatly demanded. But
this term was so much misused that it was banned from use by the trade. "Bad"
fluorescence detracts from the beauty of a diamond.
Brilliance:
Internal and external reflection of white light to the eye from a gemstone.
Crown:
This is the top part of the diamond above the girdle.
Cut:
Cut refers to the arrangement of a diamond's facets. A diamond which is "ideal
cut" captures and reflects back from the interior of the stone the maximum play
of light. This is not the same as the shape of a diamond.
Gemologist:
A person who has been trained and certified in diamonds and colored stones.
Girdle:
This is the circumference of a diamond which is usually held by prongs of a
setting and separates the crown and pavilion. The purpose of the girdle is to
protect the edge of the stone from chipping.
Head:
The prongs which hold a diamond in its setting.
Inclusions:
These are natural impurities in a diamond which were formed during the
crystallization process.
Karat:
This is another thing than carat-weight of a diamond. This is the measure of the
purity of gold; 24-karat being pure gold. Jewelry is made from 18K and 14K gold,
and contains other metals for strength.
Laser-Drilled:
Treated with a laser to remove carbon spots.
Light Return:
The light that is returned from the diamond and not leaked through the pavilion
(bottom) of the diamond.
Loupe: A small magnifying glass used to view gemstones.
Off-Make:
An ill-proportioned diamond.
Pavé: A method of setting diamonds very closely together, giving the illusion of one or more larger diamonds.
Pavilion:
The bottom part of the diamond below the girdle. It has an ideal angle of 40.75
degrees. The pavillion acts as a very highly polished and precise mirror that
throws the light back through the other facets.
Point:
One-hundredth of a carat.
Refraction: Refraction refers to the bending and slowing of light passing at an
oblique
angle from the medium of one optical density (such as air) into a medium of
greater optical density (such as a diamond). The refraction on passing of the
light from air into the diamond and from the diamond back into the air creates
the fire of a diamond, because the various colors of the white light are
refracted to various degrees and thus separated from each other.
Semi-Mount:
A setting which is complete except for the main stone, which will be selected
separately.
Shape: This is not the same as cut,
shape means the geometric for of the stone. Popular shapes include the round
brilliant, marquise, emerald cut, pear and oval.
Single-Cut:
A diamond with only 16 or 17 facets.
Sparkle
Treated diamonds: No diamond is wholly perfec, but a diamond of high quality does not need any tratment to look bettert. A diamond that is less that of high quality can be made to look better by certain physical methods. Cracks can be filled with a glassy material. One can drill a hole with a laser, then burn out impurities and then fill the hole with som glassy material. One can also let the diamond undergo physical processes to change the color. Treated diamonds do not increase in value by the treatment, since the treatment does not necessarily last and can make yte diamond weaker.
Table: This is the largest and most important facet in a diamond situated at
the top.
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