SC - Chicken soup?
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Thu Oct 5 10:31:14 PDT 2000
At 1:55 PM +0000 10/5/00, Erika Thomenius wrote:
>Also, you can get lab-grown stones a lot of places. (ex.
>www.thaigem.com).. Would that be cheating? :)
I don't know--it depends whether synthetics have the same virtues as
natural. Clearly you have to do some research. I suggest going
through one of the medieval lapidaries to find out what virtues each
stone has, then constructing suitable tests. I don't think you can
get synthetic amethyst, so the "does it protect me from getting
drunk" test, however entertaining, may not be an option. And some of
the others might be a bit hazardous. Be selective.
A further consideration is that something labelled "synthetic X" may
actually be "synthetic Y in a color that looks like X." Many
synthetic gemstones are either corundum or spinel, colored to match
whatever they are supposed to be.
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