Lapis Lazuli Rough
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 Blue Afghanistan Lapis Lazuli Rough Stone 130 g  US $6.00
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Lapis Lazuli from mines of sar-e-sang Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Natural gemstones
However certain rocks, (such as lapis lazuli) and organic materials (such as Amber or jet) are not minerals, but still used for jewelry, and therefore often regarded as natural gemstones as well. Most precious stones are hard, but some soft minerals are used in jewelry due to its brightness or other physical properties that have aesthetic value. Rarity is another feature that gives value to a gemstone. Besides jewelry, from ancient times until the 19th century engraved gems and carvings and cups were Hardstone large luxury art forms, the sculptures of Carl Faberge was the last major work in this tradition.
The traditional classification in the West, dating back to the ancient Greeks, begins with a distinction between precious and semiprecious stones, similar distinctions are made in other cultures. In modern usage precious stones are diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald, with all the other gems to be semi-precious stones. This distinction is not scientific and reflects the rarity of the respective stones in antiquity, and their quality: they are all fine translucent color in its purest form, with the exception of colorless diamonds, and very hard, with hardness of 80-10 on the Mohs scale. Other stones are classified by their color, transparency and hardness. The traditional distinction does not necessarily reflect modern values by example, while garnets are relatively inexpensive, called Tsavorite green garnet, can be much more valuable than a mid-quality emerald. Another scientific term semi-precious stones used in art history and archeology is Hardstone. The use of the words' beautiful 'and' semi-precious in a commercial context is not certainly misleading, since it apparently involves some stones are inherently more valuable than others, which is not the case.
In modern times Natural gemstones are identified by gemologists, who describe gems and their specific characteristics using technical terminology in the field of gemology. The first characteristic a gemologist uses to identify a gemstone is its chemical composition composition. For example, diamonds are made of carbon (C) and rubies of aluminum oxide (Al2O3). Then, many gems are crystals which are classified by crystal system such as cubic or trigonal or monoclinic. Another term used is habit, the shape of the gem is usually found in. For example, diamonds, which have a cubic crystal system, are often in octahedra.
There are no universally accepted classification systems for any gemstone other than white (colorless) diamond. Diamonds are graded using a system developed by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in the decade 1950. Historically, all gemstones are graded with the naked eye. The GIA system includes an important innovation, the introduction of 10x magnification as the standard classification of clarity. Other <a href=" "> http://www.gemandgemstone.com natural gemstones </ a> are still qualified with the naked eye (assuming a vision of 20/20).
A mnemonic device, the "four Cs" (color, cut, clarity and carat) has been introduced to help consumers understand the factors used for classification of a diamond. [8] With the modification of these categories can be useful in understanding the classification of all gemstones. The four criteria are weighted differently depending on whether they apply to colored gemstones or diamond colorless. In diamonds, cut is the main determinant of value followed by clarity and color. Diamonds are meant to shine, to break light into its rainbow colors iris constituents (scatter) brilliant cut them into pieces (scintillation) and submit it to the light (brightness). In its crystalline form in the rough, a diamond will do none of these things, is required for proper settings and it is this called "cut." In gemstones, color, including colored diamonds, is the purity and beauty that color is the main determinant of quality.
Physical characteristics that make a colored stone valuable are color, clarity lesser extent (emeralds will always have a number of inclusions), cut, unusual optical phenomena within the stone and color as zoning and Asteria (Star effects). The Greeks, for example, Asteria valuable gems, which were considered as a powerful love charm, and Helen of Troy was known for bringing star corundum.
Historically gemstones were classified into precious stones and semi-precious stones. Because this definition may change over time and vary with culture, has always been difficult to determine what constitutes precious stones.
Diamond has a wide band gap of 5.5 eV, corresponding to the ultraviolet wavelength of 225 nanometers deep. This means pure diamond should transmit visible light and appear as a colorless glass. Colors in the diamond come from defects in the network and impurities. The diamond lattice is exceptionally strong and only atoms nitrogen, boron and hydrogen can be introduced into diamond during growth in large concentrations (up to atomic percentages). Transition metals Ni and Co, which are commonly used for synthetic diamond growth using standard high pressure high temperature, have been detected in diamond as atoms individual, the maximum concentration is 0.01% for Ni [24] and even much less Co. Virtually any element can be introduced into the diamond by the implantation ion.
Nitrogen is by far the most common impurity found in gem diamonds. Nitrogen is responsible for yellow brown diamonds. Boron is responsible for colors.Color blue gray diamond has two sources: the radiation (usually by alpha particles) which causes the color of green diamonds, and plastic deformation of the diamond lattice. Plastic deformation is the cause of some brown color [26] and diamonds.In order maybe pink and red of rarity, colorless diamond, by far the most common, is followed by yellow and brown, by far the colors common, then the blue, green, black, translucent white, pink, purple, orange, purple, and the rarer red. "Black" or Carbonado, diamonds are not really black, but contain numerous dark inclusions that give the jewels of its dark side. Colored diamonds contain impurities or defects causing structural coloration, while pure or nearly pure diamonds are transparent and colorless. Most diamond impurities replace a carbon atom crystal lattice, known as a deficiency of carbon. The most common impurity, nitrogen, causes a deep yellow color light, depending on the type and concentration of nitrogen. [20] The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) grades diamonds low saturation yellow and brown like diamonds in the range normal color, and applies a rating scale of "D" (colorless) to Z (light yellow). Diamonds of a different color, like blue, are called fancy colored diamonds, and correspond to a different rating scale.
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