Buying Real Dichroic Pink Tourmalines and Knowing the Difference
How would you know if the pink tourmaline you are about to buy is genuine or not? It is understandable to be wary of the originality of something we are about to buy. More so, if that thing can be as precious as jewelry items or gemstones. Tourmaline stones, because of their variety of colors, can be easily copied to make false resemblances. Still, the best way to know if a gemstone is certified or not is to know its characteristics and distinct qualities. As for tourmalines, you are quite lucky because of their distinctive qualities that make it easy for you to discern which one is real and which one is not.
If you are planning to buy a tourmaline gemstone, specifically, a pink tourmaline, then here are some of the characteristics of this semi precious stone that you may need to know. Some of them are easy to spot, especially if you are a jewelry aficionado, others are quite tricky, while few can be very highly technical that you may need certain instruments to verify the claim.
- The color pink and the different shades and hues of it. You may think that the lighter pinkish ones can be fake and the darker shades are the original but the truth is you will never know. This is because pin tourmalines have astonishingly different colors and in each color types, there are many different shades and hues to choose from. This variety in colors and shades is one of the reasons why they are widely in demand among jewelry enthusiasts. The colors and shades can changed depends on the types of treatment being applied to the stone. So be careful by depending on looks alone.
- Some of the technical aspects that you need to know about tourmalines in general. In the Moh’s scale of hardness, tourmaline’s hardness may range between 7 and 7.5. The density is between 3.02 and 3.26, with a refractive index of 1.62 to 1.64. To know about these characteristics, you may need certain instruments.
- When heated tourmalines generate electricity. Known as “pyroelectricity” characteristic, a tourmaline stone can make it positive and negative in either ends. This is one of the unique characteristics of tourmaline.
- Tourmalines are dichroic. Dichroic is a characteristic in tourmalines in which the gemstones may be viewed different according to light. That means that a tourmaline may be different when viewed in the daylight (natural light) in as much as it is also different when viewed in the nighttime (artificial light). This way the shades and depth of color varies at anytime of the day.
- No two are alike. In the same characteristics as that of snowflakes: no two tourmalines are alike. Each one is unique and different to the other.
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