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The Cubic Zirconia Padparadschah Oval is one of the jewelry industry’s more unusual products. It is an inexpensive lab creation of one of the world’s rarest, most expensive gems, the padparadschah sapphire. Bearing the Sinhalese name for “lotus flower,” this unusually colored sapphire is a seductive pink-orange variety of corundum that is so delicate and rare that its cost rivals that of high quality rubies and sapphires. Thought to augment wisdom, the padparadschah sapphire connotes optimism and friendliness, adding to its meaning when used in jewelry design or given as a gift.

Mined in Sri Lanka, the natural padparadschah sapphire must be heat treated to intensify and bring out the unique pink and orange coloration for which it is valued. Wholesale cz padparadschah, however, are expertly created in the laboratory to consistently display the most desirable pink-orange coloration in every lab created cz gem. It is that unusual, alluring coloration that makes padparadschah, whether natural or lab created, the most desirable sapphire fancy on the market today.

In nature, the gem mineral corundum comes in many colors. All colors of corundum are referred to as sapphires with the exception of red corundum which is known as the ruby. Color distinctions are made by prefacing the word “sapphire” with the color, as in blue sapphire, mauve sapphire, white sapphire or padparadschah sapphire. The unique pink-orange coloration of the padparadschah sapphire is so widely recognized and highly prized that padparadschah sapphires are generally referred to simply as padparadschah. This is true of both the natural gem and lab created cz padparadschah.

Loose cz padparadschah is a stunning, high-quality, lab-created gem that is enjoying high demand because of its unusual coloration and practical durability. Created in exacting laboratory conditions from simulated diamond cubic zirconium, lab created cz padparadschah has a durable hardness of 8.5 on the Mohs scale, making it a natural for custom jewelry and gem decorated art work. Although the oval shape is particularly popular, loose cz padparadschah is also available from online wholesalers like PehnecGems in round, octagon, square, marquise, pear, heart and trillion shapes. Visit our website at www.pehnec.com to place your order for beautiful, high-quality cz padparadschah.