The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

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This handbook will prove useful, not only to the expert and to those requiring certain technical information, but also to the general public, whose interest in this entrancing subject may be simply that of pleasure in the purchase, possession, or collection of precious stones, or even in the mere examination of them through the plate-glass of a jeweller’s window. Topics covered includes: The Origin of Precious Stones, Physical Properties Crystalline Structure, Colour, Hardness, Specific Gravity, Magnetic and Electric Influences, The Cutting of Precious Stones, Imitations, and Some of the Tests of Precious Stones, Various Precious Stones.

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