#gemmologist

[myblacknightworld]

every female character in recent history (not animated) tries to be Marguerite Krux (multidimentional, allowed to be a real person with real feelings and reactions and, most importantly, flawed, imperfect, and allowed to make mistakes and learn) so hard and yet they miss the target by half the distance between here and the sun, when everyone in studios should just understand that perfect doesn't mean better, quite the contrary

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

Yay for spodumene! Spodumene varieties are lesser known in the gem trade than many of the more famous gem species (I admit I'd never seen it before studying my diploma) and kunzite and hiddenite are probably the most desirable.

(@theproblemwithstardust I know you probably know more about this than me but here's the breakdown for anyone who is interested...) Oh but also below a keep-reading because I also rambled ^^;

pure spodumene without any impurities is clear Many gemstones would be colourless if they were completely chemically pure. Their colour comes from trace amounts of other chemical elements which are not intrinsic to the chemical crystal structure of the mineral itself - these are called allochromatic or 'other-coloured' gems!

For example, pure corundum (aluminium oxide) is colourless (we'd call it white sapphire! If it contains traces of iron and titanium this colours it blue, and we call it sapphire. If it has impurities of chromium it is coloured red, and we call it ruby!

Gemstones where the colour is caused by an element intrinsic to the crystal structure are called idiochromatic or 'self-coloured'. Examples include peridot (magnesium iron silicate) and pyrope-almandine garnet (iron aluminium silicate)

pink/purple gem varieties [of spodumene] are called kunzite and the color is caused by trace amounts of Mn Manganese as a colouring element in gemstones often produces a pink to orange colour palette depending on the surrounding crystal environment. It causes the pink of spodumene var. kunzite and beryl var. morganite as an impurity (allochromatic gems), and the orange of spessartine garnet and pink of rhodonite and rhodochrosite as an intrinsic chemical element (idiochromatic gems)

the color is very prone to fading in uv light A great tip for any pink or light purple stones is to keep them away from strong light! Their colour can fade from prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation, and you wouldn't want to spoil your beautiful gem collection - so tidy your jewellery away nicely and maybe stop keeping your rose quartz crystals on the windowsill in full sun :')

Fun fact I did my own experiment with zircon based on a paper I'd read about reversing the colour degredation caused by UV exposure. I was so excited I forgot to take before and after photos! The great news is (in zircon at least) you can reverse the colour change by exposing the stone to incandescent light (which is typically accompanied by infra-red radiation - ie/ the kind of light bulb that emits heat!) But I'm getting distracted from spodumene...

The dark green variety is hiddenite, NOT kunzite like it is labeled here and the color is due to trace amounts of Cr and possibly V My memory hack for learning this gem variety was that hiddensite is like Hiddleston like Tom Hiddleston who wore green as Loki in the Marvel films :P So yes the chromium-coloured green variety of spodumene is called hiddenite!

Many lesser known gem colour varieties get referred to as 'colour famous-cousin' for ease of explanation - it's not gemmologically correct but it often happens particularly when it comes to trying to sell these things! Lots of people wouldn't know prasiolite, but they can imagine what you mean when you say 'green amethyst'.

That said, there are times it is correct to do this! Sapphire occurs in every colour except red (because if it's red, we call it ruby), but any other colour is referred to as 'colour sapphire'. So it is correct to say pink sapphire, yellow sapphire, purple sapphire! If you just say 'sapphire' we assume you mean blue :)

the pale green/yellow gem variety of spodumene [is] called triphane Oh exciting! I didn't know this! ^_^

Not spod related but we also learned in mineralogy that bixbite is an outdated term since it’s so close to bixbyite. we just call it ‘red beryl’ but I’m not sure what it is like in the gem world!) The proper way to refer to it would be beryl var. red beryl, but if you said bixbite we'd still know what you meant! :) This is also a gem which would be misnomered as 'red emerald'...

Naturally occuring red beryl is very rare, and typically occurs in small sizes not suitable for faceting as gemstones. That said, these things can be created synthetically and synthetic hydrothemal red beryl is another stone which shows FAB orange/pink pleochroism!

ps. I think a lot of the pictures in the original post are colour enhanced, it's a fun guide but maybe go speak to your friendly neighbourhood gemmologist if you want to know if they're actually representing the colour correctly!

By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

[electricboogaloosstuff]

FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE AS SOMEONE WHO FINISHED HER HIGHER STUDY AND DO NOT HAVE TO GET JOB YET LIFE IS GOOD NO STRESS IN MY BODY YIPPEE

[ratnawala]

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[dykeravengard]

genuine question this has been bugging me for ages. if diamonds are the hardest material there is. how cut diamond

incredibly good question, the answer is very simple: other diamond

...yeah i'll elaborate. i'm not gonna get into crystallography because i would be here for 10 hours, but the most condensed explanation i can give you is this: crystals dont have the same hardness on every face, if you hit a crystal on one side you're more likely to scratch it than if you hit it on another side, and so on

the entire diamond crystal doesn't have a uniform hardness, i mean the entirety of it is very hard, but some parts of the same diamond crystal are harder than others, and the less hard ones can be cut by the more hard ones. i'm not a gemmologist so i don't actually know how the entire process works in detail, but yeah in short we use diamonds to cut diamonds

also fun fact diamonds aren't actually the material with the strongest bonds, but it's a close second to graphene... i would need an essay to explain this so come back with a warrant for it

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

Haha you are very kind and I think it's insanely interesting too, so I'm glad you enjoyed reading!

Apologies if it launched into the science half-explained, I was trying to remember what basic concepts you needed to understand pleochroism. As Tech would say, "I thought it was obvious" - like, because I know what I'm looking at, of course I knew it was one crystal - then you said that was mind-blowing and I was like 'wow yeah I guess it is!' :D The pictures are actually screenshots from a video which wouldn't upload but it's even more amazing to watch the colour shift before your eyes as I turn the crystal...

There is so much fascinating stuff about the colour of gemstones and their properties - pleochroism is probably my favourite but we haven't even started on the Colour Change Effect, internal reflection effects caused by inclusions, absorption spectra and how we perceive colour, gemstones which fluoresce or even phosphoresce under UV light... there's so much to love!

But! Thank you so much for inviting me to talk about my specialist subject, I really hope you enjoyed it - I'll follow up with more photos of pleochroic stones when I have the chance! :)

(More Tech-era gemstone infodumping Here if you're interested)

ps. @theproblemwithstardust I'd love to see your kunzite! I don't have one in my collection... shall have to add it to the wishlist :)

Pleochroism in gem quality zoisite var. tanzanite

Apparently we're doing this...

*my photos, not my crystal

Ever wondered why the colour of some gemstones seems to shift as you view them from different angles? Perhaps are you were looking at a pleochroic gemstone!

Pleochroism is a body colour effect seen in transparent to translucent, optically anisotropic* crystalline material caused by differential absorption of the polarised light rays following different paths through the gemstone, and causing a change to perceived body colour when the stone is viewed from different directions.

...Okay, but what does that mean?

Pleochroism means 'many coloured'. When light passes through a crystal, it is sometimes split into two rays - each ray takes a slightly different path, and because it encounters different atoms within the crystal structure, it is modified to a different colour.

When both different coloured rays of light exit the crystal, your eye resolves them as a single colour. Clever, right? :D

The four photos above are of the same crystal. The top photos show the crystal from two different angles - one looks distinctly more purplish than the other, right? That is eye-visible pleochroism!

Even gems that show pleochroism don't always show it strongly enough to see with the naked eye. But this tanzanite crystal does.

The bottom photos show the same crystals viewed through a type of polarising filter called a dichroscope. The dichroscope is made of polarising film where each half lets through only one of the rays of coloured light - meaning you can see each of the two colours at the same time, one in each half of the filter!

But wait!- I hear you cry. Why are there THREE different colours??

Hmm well this is getting into a deeper discussion of crystal habits and their optical behaviours, so for now let's say that depending on the symmetry of the crystal, an optically anisotropic* stone can show two or three colours - but only ever two in one direction! You have to turn the crystal to see the third colour.

If a stone shows two colours we say it is dichroic, if it shows three it is trichroic. This is the maximum number of colours you will see.

When you view the tanzanite crystal in the position in the left photo, the light rays being transmitted are blue and reddish-purple. Your eyes resolve this to show a purpley-blue colour. Neat!

But in the position from the right photo, it's transmitting blue and yellow. Wild! The yellow ray dilutes some of the intensity of the blue, so the colour you see is a weaker blue tone.

The photo I'm missing from my set is the crystal viewed from top-down, which would then show a purple and yellow split through the dichroscope!

So turning the stone, or moving your head position relative to the position of the stone, really does change its colour, because you are perceiving a different set of coloured light rays being transmitted through the stone!

When fashioning a rough crystal, a lapidary (that's a stone cutter) would to orient the crystal so the best colour is face-up - ie. when you look at the finished polished stone, you will see the most attractive balance of colour. What is considered ideal varies with the stone - you might cut a very dark crystal to show its lighter colour, or a pale one to show the most intense colour it is able to!

Fun additional fact - tanzanite can be heated to improve its colour. It does this by removing the yellow element entirely, meaning you will see intense bluey-purple tones from all angles! The wonders of stone treatments!

*Edit I am misleading you by saying you will see bluey-purple in all directions... in two directions (as tanzanite is a biaxial gemstone) you will find an optic axis, which is a direction of optical isotropy in an otherwise optically anisotropic* gemstone. So in this direction, you will only have a single transmitted ray of light, not two!

*I use the phrase optically anisotropic a couple of times and it's hard to explain without a whole separate citizen lecture on crystallography, but the quick summary is that it means a crystal in which light behaves differently as it travels in different directions - such as the differential absorption resulting in different colours in pleochroism! This is as opposed to an optically isotropic crystal, where light behaves the same way in all directions of travel.

And that is a recited-from-memory summary of pleochroism! :D (please don't tell me off if I got any of it wrong I didn't go upstairs to check my notes ;_;) (I mean I didn't get any of it wrong but my quoted definition probably wasn't word perfect ^^;)

@royallykt thank you so much for your interest i hope you enjoyed learning about all this :)

[haretobeloved]

Also Mole's romance plight is another reason I see him as autistic, a lot of autistic people could be described as hopeless romantics/obsessed with love or the concept of soulmates because the fantasy that someone understands us so perfectly is so foreign/unnobtainable (at least in our minds) that all we can do is daydream about it and project it onto media/etc

So I think, maybe, Mole tells himself he's come to terms with it and really throws himself into his work, but when he's digging alone with no one else around and the cavern walls are no match for that feeling of dread - he probably cries/gets caught up in the idea all over again

Then he meets Crow, and is genuinely thrown off that a) they have such similar passions for their work and b) that Crow seems to smile at him in a way no one else ever had before. Genuine + warm, no underlying disgust or malice, just... a real smile. He (Crow) is even charmed by him!

Team Atlantis watching the gemmologist they needed an opinion from flirt with Mole: Oh my god, we need to make this happen because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity

^ The crew probably encourages Mole to talk to Crow more, maybe even gets Crow hired for the expedition instead of being just the opinions guy just so they can see each other more (obviously they don't say it directly, more like a "hey, we might find more of these weird crystal growths and you guys seem to make a good team with this stuff, how about you come along?" Crow would brim with excitement, running around and giggling as he grabs his stuff. Mole seems off put to have another dirt/rock person on the crew for a moment until he looks back and has his moment of "knowing" with the laughing and the rambling.)

Sorry this turned into a gay ass ramble, but I love Diamonds in the Rough sm, Crowley and Gaetan when I fucking get you-

[steliosagapitos]

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[buymydiamond]

Guide to Sell Your Precious Gemstones for Cash with Confidence

The first, after you have made the decision to Sell Your Gemstones for Cash, is to determine their actual value. Understand what you own; that is going to protect you from accepting a lower price than they are worth. You can consider getting an appraisal by a certified gemmologist or an honest jewellery expert.

[electricboogaloosstuff]

Alright buckle up, I'm going on a rant

So I was on Instagram and an add pop up. It's several rings. I see one that I find pretty so I look up the model just so I know what kind of price we're talking.

And my god do they have no shame ?

Alright so background information, I'm a geologist and a gemmologist so I know my rocks. The ring I found was this one :

Natural back opal is one of the most expensive type of opal out there. Here, we have lab grown opal, you can tell by the stripped pattern. Uncut it looks like this :

Now, no hate toward lab grown gems, the fact that we can imitate natural gems is pretty cool if you ask me.

BUT

Lab grown opal is obviously WAY cheaper than natural opal. Especially for black opal.

600$ looked pretty high for me so I looked up other rings in this style

BAM WE LOOSE MORE THAN 450$ (still too expensive if you ask me but still).

THAT'S NOT ALL

If you were to buy the raw material (keep in mind that it's an estimate because I couldn't find prices directly from the lab)

One slab big enough to do several rings is the price of one of the cheaper ring (keep in mind that you still have to make a ring out of it and you have to pay for that).

So let's be clear, do not buy a 600$ lab grown opal ring, it's not supposed to be that expensive.

Anyway always check where the gems in your jewelry is from folks <3

[fashiondaily1221]

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[chrisnotti]

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[mediterraneanstar]

It's such a pity that not many people in this fandom speak Italian, because there's this italian gemmologist (Andrea Falcioni) who makes these hilarious skits on youtube...

He's like an evil middle-aged Akeboshi who likes to torment his apprentices 🤣🤣🤣