These synthetics can be passed off in much the same way as cubic zirconia.

"It's a great value, and they also give you cubic zirconia earrings," he said.

Next, a version of Windows 95 in cubic zirconia?

"There's only so much cubic zirconia you can buy."

"I just have to check that there isn't cubic zirconia in mine because of the whole ball fiasco."

This allows distinguishing diamond from cubic zirconia with the right instruments.

Specific gravity: cubic zirconia is about 1.7 times denser than diamond.

Its limited availability makes moissanite about 120 times more expensive than cubic zirconia.

It is studded with cubic zirconia, which sparkles like diamonds.

"I leaped over diamonds to go out with cubic zirconia," he says, sounding depressed.

A bronze might be worth a cubic zirconia pinkie.

The designers eventually settled on cubic zirconia, a longtime staple of budget jewelry.

Golf balls, marbles, cell phones and cubic zirconia, for example, are not safe.

It is not the same as cubic zirconia, which is man-made from different chemicals.

Male nursery web spiders are the guys who pass off cubic zirconia as diamonds of the insect world.

The most familiar diamond simulant to most consumers is cubic zirconia.

Cubic zirconia has no cleavage and exhibits a conchoidal fracture.

Cut: cubic zirconia gemstones may be cut differently from diamonds.

In recent years manufacturers have sought ways of distinguishing their product by supposedly "improving" cubic zirconia.

Todd and Nick are now part of Cubic Zirconia.

However, unlike diamond and cubic zirconia, moissanite is strongly birefringent.

However, some sellers offer near colorless or yellow cubic zirconia, along with other colors, such as pink, green, etc.

Moissanite is somewhat harder than common cubic zirconia.

There are many formulations of stabilized cubic zirconia.

Cubic zirconia is the most common.