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Friday, 06 October 2006 16:27 |
The Beauty of Phenomenal Stones With the crystal-clear beauty of the chemically produced colors, we have still not reached the end of the chain of wonders, so incredible to the layman. However bewildering the almost inexhaustible variety of colors, yet more bewildering are the twinkling light displays of the phenomenal stones—of cat's-eyes and star stones, of moonstone, opal, and spectrolite. They exert less of a general attraction but an all the more distinctive beauty appealing to personal taste. Gemstone lore and superstition could scarcely find yellow diamond rings anywhere more fruitful soil than in these intangible visions reflected from the unplumbable depths of the stones' interiors or apparently sweeping over their surfaces. For the uninitiated, these visions are wreathed with inexplicable mysteries, but in actual fact they originate from purely optical properties of light rendered visible by structural peculiarities of the gemstones concerned. |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 07:00 |
The Cause of Colors Here lightly brushed in and with variegated play, there firmly laid on or, as it were, solidified—the colors of gemstones manifest themselves in crystalline clarity and total beauty. The investigation and explanation of gem colors forms one of the most exciting chapters of gemmology. Optics and chemistry mesh in with the highly topical science of atomic structure and forces. |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 06:54 |
The Beauty of Colored Gems  Color is the most beautiful manifestation of light and one of the most striking features of the material world. It spices Nature as salt does food. After the gray monotone of winter, man's eyes rejoice in the fresh, sparkling abundance of spring color.
Color expresses dynamism and energy discount diamond earrings; unasked, it brings us cheerful serenity and uplifted spirits. So, too, the love of precious stones depends to a great extent on their richness of color. Unearthed from the dark underworld into the light, the essentially modest crystals owe their sublime dignity and glorious beauty to color alone. The world of human conceptions is mainly a world of the eye and thus a world of light and color. Its liveliness and its constantly changing play of light not only satisfy a general feeling for beauty; they are, rather, a functional need of mankind. |
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