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Nearly all tanzanite is heated at low temperatures to remove brown undertones and give a more desirable blue / purple color. [31] A considerable portion of all sapphire and ruby is treated with a variety of heat treatments to improve both color and clarity. Elwell, Dennis (1981). Nassau, Kurt (ed.). "Synthetic Gemstones". Science. 211 (4487): 1156. doi: 10.1126/science.211.4487.1156.a. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1685235. PMID 17755153. S2CID 239860410. Archived from the original on April 15, 2023 . Retrieved April 15, 2023.

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Nassau, Kurt (1984). "The Early History of Gemstone Treatments" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 2, 2023 . Retrieved March 31, 2023. Taaffeite has only been found in Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Most material is not suitable for faceting, making it even more difficult to source. The gemstone is so scarce, it is considered over 1 million times more rare than a diamond.For example, beryl, which is colorless in its pure mineral form, becomes emerald with chromium impurities. If manganese is added instead of chromium, beryl becomes pink morganite. With iron, it becomes aquamarine. a b "10 Gems Rarer and More Valuable Than Diamonds". The Spruce Crafts. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023 . Retrieved March 31, 2023.

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A mnemonic device, the "four Cs" (color, cut, clarity, and carats), has been introduced to help describe the factors used to grade a diamond. [12] With modification, these categories can be useful in understanding the grading of all gemstones. The four criteria carry different weights depending upon whether they are applied to colored gemstones or to colorless diamonds. In diamonds, the cut is the primary determinant of value, followed by clarity and color. The ideal cut diamond will sparkle, to break down light into its constituent rainbow colors (dispersion), chop it up into bright little pieces (scintillation), and deliver it to the eye (brilliance). In its rough crystalline form, a diamond will do none of these things; it requires proper fashioning and this is called "cut". In gemstones that have color, including colored diamonds, the purity, and beauty of that color is the primary determinant of quality.Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Gemstone (disambiguation), Gems (disambiguation), Gem (disambiguation), Jewels (disambiguation),and Precious stone (disambiguation). To produce corundum, a pure aluminium powder is used with different additives to achieve different colors. [44]

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Gemological Institute of America (GIA), the main provider of education services and diamond grading reportsToday the gemstone trade no longer makes such a distinction. [15] Many gemstones are used in even the most expensive jewelry, depending on the brand-name of the designer, fashion trends, market supply, treatments, etc. Nevertheless, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds still have a reputation that exceeds those of other gemstones. [16] The color of any material is due to the nature of light itself. Daylight, often called white light, is all of the colors of the spectrum combined. When light strikes a material, most of the light is absorbed while a smaller amount of a particular frequency or wavelength is reflected. The part that is reflected reaches the eye as the perceived color. A ruby appears red because it absorbs all the other colors of white light while reflecting the red. urn:lcp:gemstonesofworld0000schu_b3o8:epub:899cfe24-e02a-4f80-aa7a-44aeec62e69d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gemstonesofworld0000schu_b3o8 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2pww0z5kr1 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0806930888 Lccn 77079503 //r83 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9757 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng+deu Old_pallet IA14624 Openlibrary_edition Red beryl or bixbite was discovered in an area near Beaver, Utah in 1904 and named after the American mineralogist Maynard Bixby. Cultured, synthetic, or "lab-created" gemstones are not imitations: The bulk mineral and trace coloring elements are the same in both. For example, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds have been manufactured in labs that possess chemical and physical characteristics identical to the naturally occurring variety. Synthetic (lab created) corundum, including ruby and sapphire, is very common and costs much less than the natural stones. Small synthetic diamonds have been manufactured in large quantities as industrial abrasives, although larger gem-quality synthetic diamonds are becoming available in multiple carats. [37]