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Fashion

Anything to do with making, designing or appreciating clothing of the prevailing trends.

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cuprian

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ee Copper-bearing.

demantoid

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emantoid is a rare and valuable andradite garnet. It exhibits a range of greens from dull to bright emerald green and on rare occasions displays yellow. On Mohs scale of hardness, ...

density

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The ratio of a gemstone when compared to the weight of an equal volume of water. This means how heavy a gemstone is compared to the same volume of water. Also known as "specific ...

diamond cut

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Also known as the Brilliant Cut, the style of cutting a stone with multiple facets to maximize brilliance. Modern round brilliant cuts have 58 facets.

dichroism

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term meaning the ability of some gems to display a second shade of the same color when viewed from a different angle. A dichroscope can see this change, and is used for ...

diffusion treatment

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form of heat treatment that adds one or more chemicals to the heating process to change the color of a gemstone. Typically the treatment does not penetrate deep into the stone, so ...

dispersion

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he property of a transparent stone to split light into the seven spectral colors, causing the "fire" which is refracted by the internal facets. Diamond has a very high dispersion, ...