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A pink diamond just sold for over US$14 million—no wonder, when you look at the mysteries behind their chemistry
Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie ...
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A Gold Ring With a Rare Sapphire Was Found Beneath a Castle Floor
A richly adorned gold ring, lost for centuries beneath the grounds of a medieval Slovakian castle, has resurfaced, offering a ...
Crystals for office drama: Where to keep them to keep gossip at bay
Tired of office gossip and negativity? The article suggests using high vibrational crystals to create a more peaceful ...
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Update on Gemstone Mining in Luc Yen, Vietnam
Corundum crystals are pink, purple to red, and blue; colorless sapphire coexists with ruby, ... chalcedony, jade, and fluorite (figure 18). Figure 18. Common misspellings in the Luc Yen gem market ...
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Surface melting–driven hydrogen absorption for high-pressure polyhydride synthesis | PNAS
Purple lines represent H–H bonds with the distance shorter than 1.5 Å. A longer H–H distance was employed to account for analytical errors in calculating these rings. ( D and E ) Snapshots of atomic ...