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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 670648" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>My wife loves green gemstones, but felt that emeralds generally have a pastier, paler look than tourmaline or tsavorite. Here is a picture of her prized stones.</p><p>The one in the necklet is a tourmaline and the one in the ring is a tsavorite. Tsavorite is a slightly softer stone but has a slightly higher refractive index than tourmaline with both being generally higher than emerald. </p><p>But as in Heathos post stones can come from a very different location on earth and therefore present in a wide variety of colours, hardnesses and RIs so that these physical properties can overlap making identification difficult. [ATTACH=full]10579[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 670648, member: 4728"] My wife loves green gemstones, but felt that emeralds generally have a pastier, paler look than tourmaline or tsavorite. Here is a picture of her prized stones. The one in the necklet is a tourmaline and the one in the ring is a tsavorite. Tsavorite is a slightly softer stone but has a slightly higher refractive index than tourmaline with both being generally higher than emerald. But as in Heathos post stones can come from a very different location on earth and therefore present in a wide variety of colours, hardnesses and RIs so that these physical properties can overlap making identification difficult. [ATTACH type="full"]10579[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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