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Maintenance of Pearls
Pearls need special treatment, because it is an organic material and soft gem. Below are all the secrets to keep pearl-jewelry in the long run so you can pass it on to the next generations:
Everything about EMERALD
Emerald (green stone) is one of the 4 precious stones, along with ruby (red stone), sapphire (blue stone) and diamond (white stone). It belongs to beryllium class and it gets this wonderful green color due to bromine impurities.
Everything about SAPPHIRE
Sapphire (blue stone), along with ruby (red stone), emerald (green stone) and diamond (white stone), are among the 4 gemstones. It belongs to the corundum class and it gets this wonderful blue color from the titanium and iron impurities in it.
Mother of pearl
Mother of Pearl is often referred to as filntisi in Greece, but it is a wrong expression, and that is why the mother of Pearl in Turkish means the elephant's tooth. In fact, Mother of Pearl is the material we get from the inside of a shell that make pearls.