Both real and synthetic rubies glow under blacklight. Ironically, the ring you called a fake Ruby is likely a natural garnet, which doesn’t glow under blacklight. Your Ruby ring is likely synthetic as that style was very popular during the 70s and natural rubies of that size and clarity wouldn’t be used for mass production carving, but faceted and set.
Synthetic Ruby are various, the cheap ones, don't glow under black light, the ones that glow called flame fusion, and their price still 5-8 times garnet...flame fusion price around 7-8 times natural Ruby, since it's not so easy to be made as well, improperly made fake rubies will defective and textured honeycomb
Nice vid Merrill! Just a FYI, Synthetic or "Lab Created" Rubies also fluoresce under a black light. Natural Rubies usually have inclusions as apposed to lab created..
Hi Merrill , I knew it was a ruby when you found it . I didn't know they were luminescent under a black light. The other stone could be a garnet . Ruby's have a slight milky red look is how I knew. Very cool . Stay safe !
Just as a fun fact, it works with lab grown rubies too! I just tried it out on my lab grown one just to test it out and it worked with a small UV light for charging up glow in the dark toys.
Merrill, do you realize the sharpness of detail of that face carving in that vintage ring??? Simply astonishing!!! And to have found that in the dumps of Dead Horse Bay. I personally think it is one amazing find and ring. And NOPE, didn't know Rubies glowed under a black light! Thanks for the knowledge! ATB Rob / Florida Thunder
The fluorescence and phosphoresence of gemstones is an amazing thing, it can also be used in tandem with other tests to check the authenticity of a stone. For example, if you found a cluster ring with say 19 stones in it and you aren't sure if they're diamonds or not, a quick field test would be to flash you UV light over them and you will probably find one or two within the cluster which flouresce and that will give you a bit of an idea that they are either diamonds, or if not then certainly a natural stone of some form. Be aware though that not all diamonds flouresce and just because a diamond does, doesn't make it any more or less valuable than one that doesn't, it's one of those weird natural phenomena where some do and some don't and we don't really 100% know why!
I found this out when i was 8, i was playing with my birthday birthstone under my black light poster lamp. Also some ruby have less florescent materials in them thus they have no glow under uv. Just a tid bit of information for you.
At least half of the fantastic rubies coming out of Mozambiques huge ruby mines ( a significant portion of the market) are iron rich and show zero fluorescence. Be aware and do the full tests
Awesome Merrill! I didn't know that Thanks... lol started on that Reggae metal detecting song we talked about lastnight. Can you pull off a Jamaican accent? Its not easy and I will say more difficult than your Russian I have heard of yours in a few episodes. Chorus - "I wannna gow de'teckin but my favorite phark be cloowsed, Ya I wanna goh ah de-tehkin but da beaches all be cloows ah " I wrote a sweet verse (1) about waking up nice day, grabbed two detectors headed out the door but the sheriff pulled me over and sent me straight back home, He said there was no detecting cause your city has been closed! :-) just to much time on my hands these days lol
I just went through and I found in a gem show 152 chunk of Burma Ruby and 2 ct heart shaped Ruby and it literally glows so bright it light ups my hand !! But I love the videos !! Brother gem brother go to Blackstone adventures! And see all my stones like rubies and a ton of zultanite and Alexandrite!!
so ,,,,,,,,,, your welcome look at your comments 3 vids ago lol1 IT Also works for vasaline glass and depression era glass , glad its usefull stay safe
do you think someone threw the ring in the trash way back in the day because it was broken? crazy someone would throw out gold..maybe it wasnt as valuable back then.
Great video. But all rubies either fake or real plastic or glass or real fluorescent and that other ring you have there is a garnet not Ruby and garnets don’t glow 😊
Amazing! But what is about synthetic corundum? Does it glow as natural ruby? In my country, "ruby" rings are very common, but all those gems are synthetics.
Not necessarily true. Some natural , quite valuable rubies do not glow under UV; it depends on the iron content of the stone. Some red stones which are not rubies will glow.
Yes they do. The only natural rubies that don't glow or glow very little are Thai rubies. That's because Thai rubies have lots of iron in them. Iron quenches fluorescence.
Cool info. Try a diamond tester too. Can check the hardness of the metal. Ruby should be all the way up too 9 at least. Also synthetic rubies are made from crushing smaller ones and melting them into bigger ones. Resulting into swirl marks when observed via microscope. This info is great New info thankyou
Synthetic rubies are actually made by using alumina powder and chromium to give it the color. This is what natural ruby is. Alumina or corundum is the mineral that forms ruby. Chromium gives it the color. Same with sapphire but the elements that give it's blue color are iron and titanium.
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Both real and synthetic rubies glow under blacklight. Ironically, the ring you called a fake Ruby is likely a natural garnet, which doesn’t glow under blacklight. Your Ruby ring is likely synthetic as that style was very popular during the 70s and natural rubies of that size and clarity wouldn’t be used for mass production carving, but faceted and set.
Synthetic Ruby are various, the cheap ones, don't glow under black light, the ones that glow called flame fusion, and their price still 5-8 times garnet...flame fusion price around 7-8 times natural Ruby, since it's not so easy to be made as well, improperly made fake rubies will defective and textured honeycomb
Nice vid Merrill! Just a FYI, Synthetic or "Lab Created" Rubies also fluoresce under a black light. Natural Rubies usually have inclusions as apposed to lab created..
Hi Merrill , I knew it was a ruby when you found it . I didn't know they were luminescent under a black light. The other stone could be a garnet . Ruby's have a slight milky red look is how I knew. Very cool . Stay safe !
Get it? "The Roman is 'impressed'!!". Funny one! 😆. Very cool trick by the way with the black light. Gina have to give it a try
Oh man! GREAT connection there! That was an unintentional play on words that time! LOL!
Just as a fun fact, it works with lab grown rubies too! I just tried it out on my lab grown one just to test it out and it worked with a small UV light for charging up glow in the dark toys.
Yes that's because lab rubies are still corundum.
Merrill, do you realize the sharpness of detail of that face carving in that vintage ring??? Simply astonishing!!! And to have found that in the dumps of Dead Horse Bay.
I personally think it is one amazing find and ring. And NOPE, didn't know Rubies glowed under a black light! Thanks for the knowledge!
ATB
Rob / Florida Thunder
Thank you so much Rob!!!
Flthunder Diggin' w/ Rob! It’s a really neat ring to bad it wasn’t complete maybe have the stone mounted in a new one 👍🏻
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The fluorescence and phosphoresence of gemstones is an amazing thing, it can also be used in tandem with other tests to check the authenticity of a stone.
For example, if you found a cluster ring with say 19 stones in it and you aren't sure if they're diamonds or not, a quick field test would be to flash you UV light over them and you will probably find one or two within the cluster which flouresce and that will give you a bit of an idea that they are either diamonds, or if not then certainly a natural stone of some form.
Be aware though that not all diamonds flouresce and just because a diamond does, doesn't make it any more or less valuable than one that doesn't, it's one of those weird natural phenomena where some do and some don't and we don't really 100% know why!
awesome trick! thanks for sharing!!!
Cool Thanks for the tip ! Going to order a Black light to check mine
Very cool! I had no idea! Cheers Merrill
Meet you in 2021 when this video shows up in everyones recommended and this video blows up. :)
I LOVE this ruby 😍 I'd buy it if you ever wanted to sell
I found this out when i was 8, i was playing with my birthday birthstone under my black light poster lamp. Also some ruby have less florescent materials in them thus they have no glow under uv. Just a tid bit of information for you.
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That was incredible!
Congrats on the ring & thanks for sharing ☺️
The other one is probably a garnet
Awesome video one of the great discoveries found while under Quarantine
LOL!!!!!
Merrill, really cool, the ruby could be an intaglio.
Wow that is so cool! It’s always better when the bigger one is real lol 👍🏼 thanks for this new idea 💡
That's super cool!!👍😁
At least half of the fantastic rubies coming out of Mozambiques huge ruby mines ( a significant portion of the market) are iron rich and show zero fluorescence. Be aware and do the full tests
i did not know that ... thank you merrilll
Amazing!!! Thanks!!!
Little ring is garnet.
That intaglio signet ruby ring is wow 🤩
Cool great tip
Awesome Merrill! I didn't know that Thanks... lol started on that Reggae metal detecting song we talked about lastnight. Can you pull off a Jamaican accent? Its not easy and I will say more difficult than your Russian I have heard of yours in a few episodes. Chorus - "I wannna gow de'teckin but my favorite phark be cloowsed, Ya I wanna goh ah de-tehkin but da beaches all be cloows ah " I wrote a sweet verse (1) about waking up nice day, grabbed two detectors headed out the door but the sheriff pulled me over and sent me straight back home, He said there was no detecting cause your city has been closed! :-) just to much time on my hands these days lol
love it!
Wow! Never knew that.
whaouuu is amazing , very beautiful
Thos is not true yes rubies flouress under black light but so do lab created. And the other one looks to be garnet.
Oops 4 vids Best Day Ever , also if you get chance Ogdensburg Mine in Jersey lots to find with black light , again stay safe Merrill !
THANK YOU AGAIN Lisa! I am definitely listening with Ogdensburg Mine!
Thanks for sharing.
I just went through and I found in a gem show 152 chunk of Burma Ruby and 2 ct heart shaped Ruby and it literally glows so bright it light ups my hand !! But I love the videos !! Brother gem brother go to Blackstone adventures! And see all my stones like rubies and a ton of zultanite and Alexandrite!!
so ,,,,,,,,,, your welcome look at your comments 3 vids ago lol1
IT Also works for vasaline glass and depression era glass , glad its usefull stay safe
Pardon me! Im DUMB sometimes Lisa!!!!!! It was your comment that taught me this! I am very appreciative and I will shout it out!
do you think someone threw the ring in the trash way back in the day because it was broken? crazy someone would throw out gold..maybe it wasnt as valuable back then.
I think it was cut off somebody's finger. Perhaps post mortem
Ty Merrill good to know
cool i didn't know that :)
It’s called a garnet you can tell by the orange hue
Great video. But all rubies either fake or real plastic or glass or real fluorescent and that other ring you have there is a garnet not Ruby and garnets don’t glow 😊
Show some of the marbles you have found under the black light. Old ones have uranium in them
Amazing! But what is about synthetic corundum? Does it glow as natural ruby? In my country, "ruby" rings are very common, but all those gems are synthetics.
Synthetic rubies also glow under black light. That test is good to see if the ruby is real, but it won't tell you if it's natural or synthetic.
@@kvtar Thank you.
There are real rubies that the black light won’t work on.
Some diamonds will fluoresce under a black light a well :)
Did you test it on a garnet? I think that is going to surprise you also. A ruby can be tested with a diamond tester. It will pass is a diamond also
Garnets don't glow red and rubies won't test for diamond on a diamond tester if calibrated correctly.
The other stone looks like a garnet. Still nice, but not as nice as a ruby.
So real ruby is grow in uv light right
There other ring may just have a garnet in it.
True
Do a mohs hardness test on any stone. Love the video
Sorry guys new to this....what's a ruby ????
Sushi
Cool
Your real ruby ring is broken as well.
Not necessarily true.
Some natural , quite valuable rubies do not glow under UV; it depends on the iron content of the stone.
Some red stones which are not rubies will glow.
Real rubies do not illuminate with black light aka uv light, they remain pure and deflect it,,,
Yes they do. The only natural rubies that don't glow or glow very little are Thai rubies. That's because Thai rubies have lots of iron in them. Iron quenches fluorescence.
Real burmese ruby glow like hell because of chromium content is high. Others rubies from different region doesnt glow. FYI.
That is bad ass 👍🏻
So much bad information in this video
Your completely wrong 🤣
Cool info. Try a diamond tester too. Can check the hardness of the metal. Ruby should be all the way up too 9 at least. Also synthetic rubies are made from crushing smaller ones and melting them into bigger ones. Resulting into swirl marks when observed via microscope. This info is great New info thankyou
Synthetic rubies are actually made by using alumina powder and chromium to give it the color. This is what natural ruby is. Alumina or corundum is the mineral that forms ruby. Chromium gives it the color. Same with sapphire but the elements that give it's blue color are iron and titanium.
Nice Tip, now how to make a black light🤔