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Jewelry
Jewelry is the best friends of the women. They
are being regarded as the extension of their beauty. The jewelry can
be made from anything. The jewelry can be the most expensive one or
the cheapest but it holds the same amount of importance to the women.
The importance of the jewelry increase with the material being used
for the manufacturing of the jewelry. However jewelries are always
being designed to enhance the beauty of the person wearing it. Therefore
special attention is being given on the designing of the jewelry.
There are several types of jewelries depending upon the place they
belong to and the design they bear. But the main classification of
the jewelry is being done on the basis of the material being used
for the manufacturing of the jewelries. However at times it is difficult
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Pearl
Pearls are organic gems grown within oysters
and a few other mollusks. Pearls are formed when a foreign object
(like a tiny stone) has made its way into the mollusk's shell. The
mollusk secretes nacre, a lustrous substance that coats the intruding
object. As thousands of layers of nacre coat the intruder, a pearl
is formed; this process takes up to seven or eight years (an oyster's
useful life span). The most valuable pearls are perfectly symmetrical,
large, naturally produced, and have a shimmering iridescence (called
orient luster).
There are many types of pearls, including natural pearls (made with
no human interference), cultured pearls (pearls made by inserting
a bit of a mother-of-pearl) into [nucleating] a living oyster or by
inserting a bit of foreign tissue), baroque pearls (irregularly-shaped
pearls), freshwater pearls, seed pearls (tiny pearls), Biwa pearls
(a type of freshwater pearl from Lake Biwa, Japan from the freshwater
mussel, Hyriopsis schlegeli), blister pearls (grown attached to the
shell), black pearls (gray to black pearls), Mabe pearls (cultivated
blister pearls), etc. Pearls can be gently cleaned with mild soap
and water. The biggest natural pearl, known as the "Pearl of
Allah" or "Pearl of Lao-tse," weighs 14 pounds (6.4
kg).
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Opals
Opals are semi-precious stones that are luminous
and iridescent, frequently with inclusions of many colors ("fire").
Opal is a mineral composed of noncrystalline (amorphous) silica (and
some water) and is a species of quartz. There are three major types
of opals: common opal, opalescent precious opal (white or black, with
a rainbow-like iridescence caused by tiny crystals of cristobalite),
and fire opal (a milky stone that is fiery orange to red in color
with no opalescence).
Contra luz opals are transparent opals that show a brilliant play
of iridescence only when light shines through the stone. Many opals
have a high water content - they can dry out and crack if they are
not cared for well (opals should be stored in damp cotton wool). Some
opals are treated with oil, wax or resin to enhance their finish.
Opals have a hardness of 5.5 to 6.5 and a specific gravity of 1.98-2.50.
Opals are found in many places worldwide, including Kenya, Czechoslovakia,
Brazil, Peru, Honduras, Mexico, Canada, and the USA -- but Australia
has a tremendous variety of beautiful opals.
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