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Some good answers. But the winner, or fairly close winner is................
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Flowerpot.arty:
It is a pile of 'glass filled ruby' that has just come out of a Thai furnace. Apparently the stone/glass is then snipped into it's individual pieces, tumbled to remove the sharp edges before being sold onto the wholesalers. The rest we know.
In the top right corner is, I believe, some yellow corundum about to or has received the same treatment.
Ta Dahhh.... Drum roll...........
Flowerpot.
arty: It is a pile of 'glass filled ruby' that has just come out of a Thai furnace. Apparently the stone/glass is then snipped into it's individual pieces, tumbled to remove the sharp edges before being sold onto the wholesalers. The rest we know.
In the top right corner is, I believe, some yellow corundum about to or has received the same treatment.
Synthetics ....Grrrrr
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Glass filled aren't sythetics, they are heat treated poor quality stones, the glass fills any cracks or fissures in the natural stones.
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Heatho said:
Resulting in a stone that looks clean but is weaker since the glass is relatively soft.
Mate got caught out setting a diamond that simply cleaved as he was setting. Sent away to get re-cut, verdict was that the stone was fracture filled.
This is quite a good video. At the end shows what is left of the 'ruby' after all the glass has been removed.
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/AYs-NwvCmEk[/video]
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/AYs-NwvCmEk[/video]
Heatho said:
May as well be as they have been altered in some way from Original.... Therefore I call them Synthetics as they have been altered.... And a lot in the Gem Industry call them Synthetics as well... :|
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Yay, winner winner chicken dinner.Mr Magoo said:Some good answers. But the winner, or fairly close winner is................
Ta Dahhh.... Drum roll...........
Flowerpot.
It is a pile of 'glass filled ruby' that has just come out of a Thai furnace. Apparently the stone/glass is then snipped into it's individual pieces, tumbled to remove the sharp edges before being sold onto the wholesalers. The rest we know.
In the top right corner is, I believe, some yellow corundum about to or has received the same treatment.
arty: arty:
Still looks like a fig filled detonated possum to me, but anyway very interesting :Y:
LoneWolf said:
They started life as a natural gemstone, simply calling them synthetic would be misleading for someone who doesn't know that it is a treatment for poor quality natural stones regardless of their final composition. :Y:
Lefty said:
Well if you had a ring on with a glass filled treated stone your not going to go sticking your hand in sodium hydroxide or any other type of chemical that will etch a glass. Well I hope not anyway.
Quartz gems would etch similarly.I like the muffled gasps in the gemological teachers video when takling about the treatment...... :lol:
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