Quick and Easy Buying Guide
Carat weight: 1 carat = 200 milligrams = 6.5 mm diameter. Doubling weight doesn't double diameter.
Diamond clarity: FL/IF/VVS/VS = super expensive, near perfect. SI = best value if you can check a photo for obvious inclusions (defects).
Color: D-G = colorless, expensive, only if you have money to burn. H-J = best value. Can go lower in gold metal settings than white metal.
Cut: Better cut ratings let more light into a diamond, making it sparkle more. Very important property, don't skimp here.
Set a budget and minimum cut (Premium). Go J color for gold and I/H for white metals. Go searching for SI1/SI2 clarity diamonds at James Allen. Pick a diamond with small/no inclusions. Choose a ring setting and buy it risk-free (60-day returns).
0.04 Carat Diamonds
If the diamond is described as being 0.04 carats in weight, it can also be described as being a 4 point diamond.
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0.04 carats doesn't always get you a diamond which is precisely 2.20 mm in width - because the diamond could have been cut in different ways, it may have a different width. Counter intuitively, a diamond that is twice as heavy as another diamond is a lot less than twice as big in terms of its diameter.
In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. Henry Brooke .
How much of a change do you think you can detect with the naked eye by going from a 2.00 carat stone to a 1.98 carat stone? I can't, which is why i would recommend checking out the slightly smaller stones due to them often being priced a lot lower than the others, for no really good reason.
If you found this page, you probably were searching for something like a 0.04 diamond. The problem is there are thousands of pages with information on 0.04 diamonds, so to narrow down your search try adding other terms such as whether you want a premium, ideal or good cut of diamond. It can be humbling to compare the 0.04 carat weight with famous diamonds such as the akbar shah diamond, which came in at a final cut carat weight of 72 carats.
Carat size is only one that property out of a number that you should be considering. You should also consider a diamond other properties such as cut, because this will have a drastic effect on how well the diamond sparkles.