When was cubic zirconia invented?
The desire to produce simulated gemstones has been around for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians used certain types of blue glass to simulate turquoise. However, it wasn’t until the invention of modern technologies that simulated gemstones rivaled the look of the real thing. The best-known and most popular simulated gemstone is cubic zirconia. When clear cubic zirconia first appeared in the 1970s, many gemstone experts were fooled into believing they were looking at genuine diamonds. By the mid 1970s that cubic zirconia became a world-wide sensation and by 1980, 50,000 karats of cubic zirconia were produced globally. When the Swarovski Company began producing and using cubic zirconia in the 1980s, it became the number one gem substitute in the world.
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