Talk:Cubic zirconia

message: Might have the title wrong. Cubic zirconium or cubic zirconium oxide might be the correct title. user:Fredbauder
No, all 3 are correct. Fred Bauder
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molten zirconia contained within itself  - what? I don't quite grasp this, and am reluctant to reword it until I'm certain what it means. DS 14:43, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: The word "gaudy" used to describe the CZ compared to the diamond in the CZ vs. diamond section seems subjective, and is not helpful or descriptive.  Might someone who has adequate knowlege on this subject be more accurately descriptive?   Thomas French
Hope that fixes it. 'Rainbow-coloured' might be more evocative though. Since CZs are gaudy.
:Well, they are no more gaudy than are diamonds. Of course, many people select large CZs because they are cheap. A 5-carat diamond is no less gaudy than a 5-carat diamond, but you don't see many 5-carat CZ. Many people look down on CZs because they let people give the appearance that they are more affluent and/or more profligate with their spending.--RLent 22:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaudy? 

message: In 2001 a cubic zirconia was made by extracting carbon from source like peanet butter or stubbiness high in carbon
Cubic Zirconia does not use or contain carbon.  I think you are referring to synthetic diamond, which has been created using various carbon sources as you are referencing.--CarbonElemental 05:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  other? 

message: On March 13, 2006, User:206.195.19.43 deleted a number of comparisons between cubic zirconium and diamond.  Some of the "corrections" resulted in incorrect or misleading statements.  Should I just revert the changes?  -- Jasper 21:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yes just revert it, i want to know 203.153.253.102 (talk) 06:09, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: CZ versus Diamond

message: Contains "See Russian Star." which seems a reference to a comercial product [Russian StarTM].  A WikiPedia search for "Russian Star" yields nothing interesting.  Should "See Russian Star." remain in this article? —ConradPino (talk • contribs) 00:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Innovations

message: It is interesting, I saw an add for "DiamondAura" and suspected that it was CZ by the description, and sure enough, a search on wiki for "diamondaura" directs here, but I see no mention of it anywhere on the page.  Similarly, the above title refers to the "russian star", another CZ that fails to mention it on the site.  Since many CZ manufacturers try to cover the fact that they are CZ by not mentioning what the stone is, and by making comparison (e.g., "the fire is actually superior to that of a diamond") people are no doubt searching for answers about these stones.  Is there a rule about referencing them in the CZ article?  I don't have a particularly anti-CZ bias (they're fine for what they are), but I do object to purposeful obfuscation. --198.103.172.9 (talk) 17:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other CZ makers

message: "Cubic zirconia is so optically close to diamond that only a trained eye can easily differentiate the two."
vs.
"With a dispersive power greater than diamond (0.060 vs. 0.044) the more prismatic fire of cubic zirconia can be seen by even an untrained eye."
Which is true?
--Mwongozi (talk) 15:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-contradictory 

message: I have a ring that I thought had cubic zirconia but the stones have turned milky. Inside the ring it says "14KDOCZ". What does that mean? 
Poagers (talk) 14:30, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a DOCZ? 

message: I've always heard that a diamond will "cut glass". Is it true & if so will a CZ "cut glass" also?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.130.212.41 (talk) 23:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes and yes.  See Mohs scale.  --Synaptophysin (talk) 16:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  cut glass 

message: Do you think it's a good idea to add a sentence about the fact that home shopping channels (Home Shopping Club/Network, QVC) made Cubic zirconia mainstream popular in the 1980's? Just a thought. Macshill (talk) 06:32, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea if you could find a WP:RS, so it's not perceived as WP:OR. Plastikspork (talk) 15:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home shopping channels? 

message: "at least 1.6 times more dense than diamond".  If understood according to the usual meanings of words this means that if the density of diamond is taken to be 1, that of CZ is greater than 2.6 (i.e. 1.6 more than 1, or 1 + 1.6).  Is this what is intended ?  Perhaps "more than 1.6 times as dense as diamond" is what the author has in mind.
Andrew Smith  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.50.77 (talk) 09:23, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "more than 1.6 times as dense as diamond" means diamond density x1.6 (which is correct for CZ). Strange, I never thought about another definition .. Materialscientist (talk) 09:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean ? 

message: Many songs contain  in their lyrics: http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/cubic%20zirconia .
Maybe make a note of it. Jidanni (talk) 17:45, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
This section was modified to add some more information of the producers of when CZ was industrially produced. Some missing citations were also fixed. However, we tried to find more information on the current state of the CZ market but we found most data was copyright owned by market analytics companies. It would be interesting to see how CZ currently dwells in the market of jewellery. 
Also, we tried looking into data of imports and exports of CZ but the only data we crossed was from Indian trading and shipping companies companies. It would be interesting to find out why India only, is it currently a main importer of CZ? Or is it one of the only countries that openly publishes the entry/exit of their product. More information on this would be needed to make a meaningful contribution to the article.
Arochat (talk) 14:30, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section 

message: Wikipedians,
We wrote this section trying to identify some of the affairs surrounding CZ. We thought it would be interesting to see how CZ as an jewellery competitor does against diamond. We ultimately fell into topic surrounding the rarity of diamond and conflict diamonds and how CZ and other artificial stones are alternatives to buying diamonds. However, most of the sources we found were opinion pieces or articles mainly focusing on the situation of Blood Diamonds. This section is lacking more concise evidence that CZ and other substituents have had an effect upon these issues. From the sources we have found it has only been suggested that CZ is an alternative and that some demographic of the population has adopted this as a solution. Therefore, it would be interesting to add information from studies that address this choice and see if there has been any meaningful consequence. 
Arochat (talk) 14:30, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  CZ in Diamond Market Section 

message: Wikipedians
Our objective with this section was to outline and display the different uses of CZ outside of its primary use (jewellery). Unfortunately documentation on the topic was lacking with our sources briefly mentioning other uses but never going in depth on the subject. Sources providing this information would be useful and interesting to add to the page, furthermore information relating to how these other uses have changed throughout the years would be interesting to see.
OGHelander (talk) 14:40, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uses outside jewellery

message: The word "dentistry" doesn't even appear in this article. The major use of zirconia is in dentistry 132.234.206.215 (talk) 10:25, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in dentistry 

message: This article states that cz has a vitreous lustre, which I don't think is right. Most sources agree that cz is considered adamantine. Even the wikipedia page on lustre lists cz as an example of a stone with adamantine lustre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(mineralogy)#Adamantine_lustre  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.217.9 (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adamantine vs vitreous lustre