How much you can expect to pay out of pocket for birth control pills, including what people paid in 2017. For patients not covered by health insurance, birth control pills typically cost $20 to $50 a month. For patients covered by health insurance, out-of-pocket costs typically consist of a prescription drug copay.
T he process of cutting and polishing gems is called gemcutting. G emstone material that has not been extensively cut and polished is referred to generally as rough. Rough material that has been lightly hammered to knock off brittle, fractured material is said to have been cobbed. Rough corundum. A ll gems are cut and polished by progressive abrasion using finer and finer grits of harder substances. Diamond, the hardest naturally occurring substance, has a Mohs hardness of 10 and is used as an abrasive to cut and polish a wide variety of materials, including diamond itself.
Consequently, emerald cut diamonds (and all step cut diamonds, for that matter) are likely to be less brilliant and appear less sparkly than round brilliant cut diamonds. However, what an emerald cut diamond lacks in brilliance, it makes up for in quality. An emerald cut is designed to highlight a diamond's clarity and its color. Since an emerald cut is so shallow, inclusions, blemishes and color impurities will be painfully visible. Therefore, only diamonds with the highest Clarity and Color grades will be cut into an emerald shape. Emerald cut diamonds are understandably less versatile than round brilliant cut diamonds. Emerald cut diamond's square shape is more limiting than the classical round brilliant shape.