Jewelry Fashion 2010, Cubic zirconia is a synthetic metal that resembles the diamonds a lot. In recent years, it has turned out to be the most sought out metal for jeweleries as it could be used in the place of diamonds. Apart from being its lookalike it is also very inexpensive. It is constantly getting used in jewelleries such as rings, bracelets, pendants and earrings. It is derived from the mixture of two metals zirconium oxide and yttrium which when melted together at the 2750C results to the formation of zirconia crystals. This experiment was conducted by German and Soviet scientists, and soon they got success in achieving this synthetic metal.