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    Testing the Colour of Gemstones - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Dichroscope, Filters, Lenses and Other Aspects of Gem Testing
    Testing the Colour of Gemstones - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Dichroscope, Filters, Lenses and Other Aspects of Gem Testing
    Testing the Colour of Gemstones - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Dichroscope, Filters, Lenses and Other Aspects of Gem Testing
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    Testing the Colour of Gemstones - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Dichroscope, Filters, Lenses and Other Aspects of Gem Testing

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    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subjects of gemology and crystallography. The titles in this range include "Gemstone Manufacturing" "The Optical Properties of Gemstones and Crystals" "The Thirty-Two Classes of Crystal Symmetry" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "Testing the Colour of Gemstones" contains information on the dichroscope, filters, lenses and much more. Intended to illustrate the main aspects of colour testing it is a comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and to understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473390577
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      Testing the Colour of Gemstones - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Dichroscope, Filters, Lenses and Other Aspects of Gem Testing - Read Books Ltd.

      Herbert

      COLOUR, COLOUR FILTERS AND THE

      DICHROSCOPE

      IT HAS OFTEN BEEN STRESSED BY THOSE WHO WRITE about gems that colour is a most unreliable guide in identifying a stone. Such a statement is, of course, to a certain extent true, and the tendency in the past to label (with qualifying adjectives) all yellow stones as topaz, all red stones as ruby, and all green stones as emerald was due to too great an insistence upon the importance of that usually accidental characteristic, colour. Anyone, however, whose job it is to handle and appraise coloured stones knows how a really practised eye can recognize almost all the well-known gems at once by their characteristic shade of colour. Ability to recognize the particular shades exhibited by a given variety can be acquired by anyone with a naturally good colour sense, and developed by practice to a quite astonishing degree of virtuosity. As an instance of this the author can remember, when showing a case of about fifty mixed coloured stones to a group of gemmology students at Chelsea Polytechnic, that one of the students was able to name correctly every specimen at sight, with the exception of one or two rarities such as phenakite and danburite.

      Such knowledge and acute perception of colour are admittedly rare, but for the normal person even if the species still remains in doubt the colour of the stone will have narrowed down the possibilities enormously, especially when the lustre is also taken into consideration.

      Thus, though there are many green stones, several red stones, and several blue, there are few indeed that have the green of emerald, the red of ruby, or the blue of sapphire.

      Against this it must be admitted that the more brownish-red tints seen in Siam rubies are almost impossible to distinguish from certain red garnets and spinels, and that among the pale pink or mauve stones it is very hard for the eye to distinguish between pink topaz, tourmaline, mauve spinel, pale amethyst, kunzite, and pink beryl.

      Often two stones which appear to have precisely similar colours can nevertheless be distinguished on a colour basis if these colours are analysed or sorted by simple instruments.

      To understand how this can be so, we must make a very brief incursion into theory. What we call white light—that is, light from the sun or other incandescent bodies—is composed of a mixture of all the colours of the rainbow. Spin a circular card painted in equal sectors with the bright rainbow colours and the disc will appear white while spinning rapidly.

      Newton, in the year of the Great Fire of London (1666), was the first to show that sunlight has a composite nature, by analysing a narrow beam which passed through a chink in the shutter into his darkened room by the simple expedient of placing a glass prism in the path of the ray.

      Light is variously refracted by a transparent solid according to its wavelength; the red rays, of longer wavelength, being less

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