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Alexandrite

Tsarstone collectors guide

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241. Hue
The characteristic color that is determined by its wavelength as red, green, blue, purple, yellow, etc., and excludes white, black, and shades of gray in reference to the visible spectrum of light.
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242. Imitation
To result something of a genuine article or natural gemstone or simulate it from any material that imitate by its color, the appearance of a natural gemstone. Imitation gemstone having wholly different physical properties and chemical composition, and hen
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243. Inamori synthetic pulled alexandrite
A promotion term for synthetic alexandrite or alexandrite cat's-eye made by Kyocera company, Japan.
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244. Incandescence
The emission of light by a substance due to high temperatures: white or bright-red heat. When objects such as iron placed in fire it become dull red by 700 C degree. From 700 C degree to 1500 C degree, the color shifted from red to orange and definitely y
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245. Inclusion in chrysoberyl
The chrysoberyl crystal is penetrated by microscopic tubes, two-phase or relatively short needles parallel to the vertical or c-axis of the crystal, suitable for cut en cabochon. In brown and yellow varieties can be seen. The so-called stepped twin planes
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246. Inclusions
A general name for any small visible foreign matter such as gas, liquid, glass, or mineral enclosed within a gemstone or rock, which is a growth phenomena. Fracture or cleavage in a gemstone are not classed as inclusions. The nature of inclusions are used
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247. Index of refraction
In crystal optics, a number indicating the speed of the velocity of light in a vacuum or air to its velocity in a given crystal. The refractive index (RI) of a crystal can be expressed as ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angl
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248. Irradiation
The process of exposing certain diamond or other pale or poorly colored gemstone to radiation, such as in nuclear reactor, X-rays, neutrons from an atomic pile, deuterons a nucleus of the heavy hydrogen atom, gamma rays from a cobalt-60, electrons positiv
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249. Jewel
A fashioned ornament for personal adornment, which is made of noble metals mounted with natural, synthetic, or imitation gemstones.
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250. Jewel enamel
An enamel made of special porcelain used in jewelry as insignia and art objects.
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251. Jewelry
A number of decorative articles made artistically of gold, platinum, silver, and precious stones that are worn for personal adornment, such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc.
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252. Jewels of India
Indian gem lore was from ancient times famous for its good quality and richness. There are several famous gems in other museums such as Timur Ruby, Koh-i-Nur Diamond, etc. Most famous part of Indian jewels was in possession oh Maharajah Duleep Singh.
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253. Karat
In metallurgy a unit that expresses only to the purity of solid gold used in jewelry. In trade based on a scale of twenty-fourths, 24 karat means pure gold, 18 karat gold means, containing 18 parts gold to 6 parts of alloy, and 9 karat gold means, contain
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254. Kashmir
Beautiful sapphire and rubies occur in various parts of Kashmir, Pakistan.
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255. Kelvin temperature scale
A System International (SI) unit of thermodynamic temperature scale, commences at absolute zero, equal to 1/273.16 C degree.
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256. Laminate
A rock or mineral in plate form consisting of several different layers bonded by or cemented together, which is separated or split into thin layers.
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257. Laser
An acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. A device that emits UV to infra red electromagnetic energy, that is a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic and coherent beam of light of very restricted diameter formed by causing exi
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258. Light absorption
In optics, the reduction of the light intensity in transmission through an absorbing substance or in reflection from a surface, in crystals, minerals and gems. Absorption may vary with wavelengths of vibration in the direction of the transmitted light or
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259. Luminescence
The emission of certain visible wavelengths of light from a substance other than thermal process, which are used as diagnostic determination of gemstones. It is caused by the emission of photons, when an exited atom within the substance returns to the gro
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260. Magma
A naturally occurring molten or semi-molten material in suspension, with dissolved gases, generated within or beneath the earth's crust and capable of intrusion and extrusion. Magma, which is extruded on the surface of the earth is called lava.
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261. Metamorphic rock
Any rock, which has been derived from pre-existing rocks by mineralogical, chemical composition, textural and structural changing, essentially in the solid state due to processes operating in the earth's crust of heat or intense pressure, shearing stress,
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262. Mica schist
Schist consisting largely of micas and quartz.
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263. Mineral
A loose and inexact term that may be to define: usually homogeneous inorganic substance of definite physical properties and more or less chemical composition, which occur naturally in the earth, and usually possess a crystalline structure, which frequentl
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264. Mineralogy
The scientific study of minerals; their formation, occurrence, chemical composition, physical properties, and their classification. Oryctognosy and oryctology are obsolete terms.
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265. Moh's hardness scale
The most commonly used ten standard scale of relative hardness of minerals. The scale is expressed in numbers ranging from 1 through 10: (1) talc, (2) gypsum, (3) calcite, (4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8) topaz, (9) corundum, (10
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266. Natural
A mineral or substance, which occurs in nature; opposite of synthetic or man-made.
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267. Needlelike (silk)
Acicular a needle form of inclusions in gemstones.
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268. Negative reading
Testing a gemstone on a refractometer prism, when the stone has a greater refractive index than the measuring prism of the device, or higher than the refractive index of immersion liquid used for optical contact, the scale of refractometer remains dark an
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269. Novosibirsk synthetic alexandrite
Synthetic alexandrite made in three methods in Russia, (a) growing synthetic stones of solution-growth process or flux process specially for alexandrite, (b) Growing stone of floating-zone process. (c) Melt-grown process or so-called pulling method.
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270. Opaque
Impenetrable to light. A stone is opaque, when light cannot passed through a thin-section of 0.04 mm. For example pyrite, cuprite, etc.
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