The identification of faceted gemstomes: From the naked eye to laboratory techniques

Elements

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 163-168

  Devouard, Bertrand ^a   Notari, Franck ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b Gemmological Technology Laboratory   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gemology; Gems; Inclusions; Optical properties; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

GEMS; INCLUSIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTROSCOPY;

GEMOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS; ILLUMINATION TECHNIQUES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; NAKED-EYE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

CLASSIFICATION; GEMSTONE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 67651096018     PISSN: 18115209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.5.3.163     Document Type: Article

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