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MOISSANITE: Product Information
What is Moissanite?
The hardness, the brilliance, the fire you expect from a new unexpected source. The history of natural moissanite can be traced back to the late 1800's and a man who later became a Nobel Prize winner.
Dr. Henri Moissan discovered natural silicon carbide while analyzing part of the Diablo Canyon meteorite in 1893. The mineral name for silicon carbide, moissanite, was given in Dr. Moissan's honor in 1905.