Identification

The “cross-like” pattern is due to a simultaneous cubic and an octahedral growth.

This HPHT Lab Grown diamond set in a ring shows a cross shape pattern under UV light source (EXA™). This “cross-like” pattern is due to a simultaneous cubic and an octahedral growth (at different growing speeds) which results in a different concentration of impurities causing this zoned fluorescence pattern.
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