Synthetic vs Natural Gemstone Unboxing: Ruby, Emerald & More!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มี.ค. 2023
- Ever wondered how to tell the difference between a Natural vs Synthetic Gemstone? Lucky for you we got Rebecca and Preston on the case! We got some Ruby, Opal, Emerald, and more! We want to teach you all the telltale signs of synthetics but also teach you the science behind these beautiful gems! So tune in and get your gem knowledge growing now!
00:43 - Synthetic & Natural Ruby
05:05 - How to Spot Synthetic Spinel
07:41 - Cultured & Imitation Pearl
11:19 - Gilson Opal
14:03 - Natural vs Synthetic Emerald
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I was surprised how many bubbles in the real spinel.
I'm probably one of the few people who loves synthetic spinel more than most other gemstones. Verneuil flame fusion spinel is technically not a true synthetic: (please excuse the lack of proper scientific notation in this next part) natural spinel is MgAl2O4, which can be made by combining MgO and Al2O3 (chemical formula of colourless sapphire) in a 1:1 ratio via a flux growth method, but this ratio doesn't work for flame fusion spinel, so more Al2O3 is added to the mix to help stabilise the resulting boule. This also results in different properties compared to natural/flux spinel: slightly higher hardness of around 8.25 compared to the 7.5-8 of natural spinel, higher refractive index of 1.727 compared to around 1.718 (can be a bit higher in natural spinel due to iron or zinc content) and strong anomalous double refraction, or strain, when viewing flame fusion spinel under a polariscope. Structural similarities between sapphire and synthetic spinel can be seen using advanced lab equipment, but those details are for my research project, so I won't share my findings just yet. :P
Crystal and lab production will significantly improve going forward especially will multiple low orbit space labs / production sites.
Yup, correct. flame fusion spinels are essentially a mixture of spinel and corundum due to the intentionally unbalanced ratio of MgO and Al2O3. Do you have a collection of Djeva spinels, or any other kind of synthetic spinels (flux/pulled/hydrothermal)? I can talk about synthetics for days
@@kaiheidillonau6073 I wish I had some of the Djeva spinels, but unfortunately I only started collecting gemstones a few years back, so my collection is limited. I do have some synthetic spinels; my favourite being a 6.67ct emerald cut stone coloured by manganese. That one has a really nice fluorescent reaction to 365nm UV light. In addition, it was sold to me on eBay as a "natural apple green peridot", but I knew it wasn't due to the colour; my lecturer said it would likely be synthetic spinel, so I was more than happy to make an offer for it. In terms of colour, I believe its closest match is VS-130.
Asides from spinel, I also have small samples of Ramura flux ruby and Chatham flux emerald. How about you @Dillon, got any cool synthetic/other artificial gems, like some of the lab grown garnets?
@@MT_800 Wow impressive. I'm still searching for flux ruby and emerald. I found some flux cobalt spinels but they aren't for sale yet, those are one of the most gorgeous colours I've seen in a gem material.
I have a lot of synthetics. Hydrothermal rubies, paraiba colored beryl and corundum, Ce:YAG, Nd:YAG, Yb:YAG, CTH:YAG, Ce:GGG, Cr:GGG, Ce:LuAG and Holmium doped quadruple colour change CZ. These are the more unusual ones in my current collection.
I have contact to a guy that has a small bunch of djeva rough stock and other synthetics. I also have like 10+ princess cut Djeva #114 spinels. If you need any synthetic material, I could find you some if possible.
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You two are so awesomely cool!!!
I am so serious when I say this but, I am totally nerdy fan-girl type of geeking out right now.
I found out earlier that I passed the GemA Foundation! You're videos definitely helped. Into the diploma!
Excellent!
Would love to see y'all talk about completely man-made stones, like moissanite and Yttrium Aluminum Garnet, and your thoughts on them and their place in the jewelry market. If you think they're cool or if they're lesser somehow, that kind of thing
I feel like synthetic can be just as good, as long as they're chemically the same I'm happy 😊
Make that OPTICALLY the same, and I'm happy.
I personally would prefer a high quality lab grown than a naturally mined 9/10 because of how hard it is to find ethically sourced gemstones, and even then ethical really only means not as much disregard for loss of life
Fantastic episode! It's wonderful to learn new things and I learned a LOT of new things with this episode. Thank you for posting it.
Love every video from your Chanel i always learn something new about gemstones and minerals ❤
The comparison of Gemstones are awesome, Could you do Natural yellow Citrine vs natural yellow Sapphire and if you had to choose which would you pick. plus pink Topaz vs pink Sapphire Thank you
this was fun and helpful. looking forward to the next one!
I'm so thrilled to come across this channel! (TLDR?😊) My partner and I recently came across a home shopping channel that seems like it could be a SNL skit..it's rather outrageous...but we've found it fun to watch in the background sometimes just for a good laugh. I've often voiced that i truly think they're trying to pawn off faux gems as natural gems, but of course would have no way of knowing without more knowledge of the subject. NOW I have quite a bit more knowledge and am ready to call them to task! 😂 Thank you so much for this 😁💛✨️
I didn't know emeralds could look so clear 🙂
Yeeeesssss please to more 'cause of colour' videos.
When we zoomed into the first ruby right away I knew it was synthetic because if the bubbles in it
Yay first! I love learning about real vs synthetic gems. And let me just say that it is not nice to do to the poor oysters in cultured pearls. Planting an irritant so that it grows larger and more perfect with time. Not nice! And the information on the synthetic emeralds was very interesting. I never realized there were two types of synthetic emeralds. Great info and it was a great episode. Now I want some spinels in that gorgeous blue! Thank you both for sharing!
I appreciate your videos and all the work you put into making them, so mad respect and thanks. My pedantic mini-me wants to nitpick about some of your statements about opal, but I’m giving him a vacation.
Awesome!!
A question I have: I am partially colorblind (deuteranomoly) and emeralds always look light blue to me. Emerald inclusions always make it easy to tell whether or not what im looking at is natural emerald, but are there other ways to differentiate high grade or synthetic emerald from blue gemstones like spinel, sapphire, topaz, so on so forth without using the color as an indicator? I suppose this applies to other light green gemstones as well, if you have the time.
I'm curious what natural vs synthetic alexandrite is like.
My mom has a couple pieces of Alex jewelry that her parents bought for her (it's one of her birth stones). It's highly unlikely that they are natural, but I've always been curious
natural one are extremely expensive as far ik . It depends on the yr it was from, majority of Alex has been already mine out , lab Alex is more common these days
I think you guys should bring on a guest host to quiz you guys in the “game show”
my birthday is in august and I decided to go with the purple spinel (in place of amethyst) for my class ring instead of a peridot because spinel is also an august birthstone
and also because I like purple better than that summer grass shade of green
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Where would someone buy a synthetic opal like that? I just love it 🤤
I own more natural opal than anything else gem-wise (my birthstone) and have grown up with a gem collector dad, so I can spot most of these pretty easily but Especially natural opals. And the tri-phase inclusions in the emerald were really cool to show, very cute baby pyrite. I studied hydrothermal mineral formation in grad school, but focused mostly on bi-phase inclusions of quartz and calcite to determine their formation conditions.
hi guys - a v good lesson as usual ! I have found that there is some confusion around the various things sold as synthetic alexandrite - be great if you could go over the various simulants and synthetics. Also - I have had difficulty finding any which actually mimics the red/green shift in the natural alexandrite - does this exist..? thanks !!
Gilson makes some really nice varieties of opal...
But unless i can't tell the color, but the fake emerald doesn't look like an emerald.
what about synthetic emerald doublets? They have a forest green color and glued on top of a quartz piece.
Amazing review..
Salam 1 Hobie saya dari Gemslovers Indonesia 🙏
Synthetic = better in every way... IF you can find them.
Do you guys know anything about Bradford exchange stimulant?? They told me it has zirconium oxide in it and they say it rivals a diamond. I wonder what harness it is because I love my rings!!!
It is called Diamonesk.
Pigtoe clam shell seeds.... Mississippi river.
Synthetic spinel....who knew. Love the color range in the natural stones. Found some small brilliant cut bright red, better than any ruby for earings.
Holy textured nacre batman......
Hi! Is Blue Obsidian stone real or synthetic
There is a bubble in the natural spinnel?
Question for any of you that might know. Is it possible for asin, the pearly stain inclusion, to be on synthetic rubies or is it only found on natural rubies?
I would love to find a synthetic opal like the one they showed here, but I can’t find it online or in store. Any leads?
how can you tell synthetic chrome diopside?
I bought a perfect Ruby but when I put it in water it floats that doesn’t mean it is a synthetic does it ?
I’ve been trying to find a pair opal plugs but I can only find opalite
Very interesting to know how they can make so many rock and cristal that they not natural. Personaly i am interested only on made by nature stones and cristals.. no glass, no opalite, no gold "stone" no laboratory made saphyr...
any reason why you guys dont talk about rare medals?
Is that natural ruby flux healed by any chance?
I found lunar stone meteorite iron
What's a reputable online store for gemstone beads?
We’re associated with JTV. JTV.com has a great number of beads and JTV is an industry leader in disclosure of gem origins and treatments.
that "synthetic" opal is fantastic
I want to know if moonstone is synthesized how its look like🤔
I would love to know that too.
If you tell the synthetic roughly price per carat it’s will more help for us ...🙏
Does blue topas have air bubbles?
nope
im going to be a gemologist when i finish my exams what jobs will u recomend me to do?
Love from United Kingdom
There are many possibilities. A lot of it comes down to your interests. We made a video to help people with this: th-cam.com/video/3PlqtgL6GPE/w-d-xo.html
Technically, cuktured pearl is synthetic because it is not 100% naturally made. Maybe both cultured and natural pearl have same amount of time to be created but natural pearl are much rarer because mollusks create pearl only if there is foreign object which is very rarely enter mollusk's body
Bonjour ;s'il vous plait veillez traduire vos commentaires qui sont très instructifs en Français et Arabe ;traduction parlée et non écrite ;merci infiniment pour vos documentaires.
I have a question that I can't find an answer to, Why is celestite never faceted?
Similar to stones like Calcite and Fluorite, Celestite's low hardness and perfect cleavage make it tricky to cut and less than ideal for use in jewelry. Though rare, faceted pieces can be found. Faceted gems also show little dispersion or fire, so it's possible most prefer them in their natural crystal forms.
@@gems ok thank you so so much. Thats one of my favorite stones and I did find a few old photos on a gem site that had a couple faceted stones after I wrote the comment, So I guess my hopes of having one faceted might not happen. Anyway I am addicted to this channel.
Oh how I detest synthetics…
Why?
Jimmy Neutron did it first
Are there synthetic garnets such as alexandrite and what are the signs to look for thank you
Possibly but garnet is really not all that uncommon of a stone. Even those with heavy inclusions make it into jewelry because inclusions are very common in garnet. Also if you didn’t know garnet can come in a large variety of shades naturally including green.