Fire or Dispersion in Diamonds
Fire or Dispersion in Diamonds
Fire is the common name for the effect caused by dispersion.
Fire agate is a brown, microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony) which has a botryoidal (grape-like) growth form, and which contains layers of plate-like crystals of iron oxide (limonite) in various planes within it.
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Fire opals are unique in the lush world of the opals. They were already admired as symbols of the most fervent love in ancient times, in India and in the ancient Persian kingdom, ...
Fire Opal was born in fire, in the ancient volcanoes of Mexico. Fire opal forms when water seeps into silica-rich lava, filling seams and hollows.
Fire Opal
Mexico has a special place in the opal world. It produces both precious opal and common opal that is called "fire opal" because of its yellow to orange (aka arananjado opal) to red body color.
Fire
Fire (or dispersion), is the splitting of light into its component colors (i.e., red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet light). As light passes from one medium to another its individual colors are bent by different amounts.
Fire scale is caused by oxygen combining with copper present in the silver-copper alloy. A sterling silver alloy contains 925 parts out of a thousand parts silver and 75 parts out of a thousand parts copper.
Fire opal is hyacinth-red to honey-yellow and shows intense orange and red fire-like reflections. It is the only variety that can be faceted, as some specimens are totally transparent.
Water opal is similar to fire opal, but is colourless.
FIRE:
Refers to the flashes of color appearing in many gemstones as white light is separated into colors creating a rainbow or prism effect.
See also: Brilliance Cut
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Usage: Fire Agate is known for its healing qualities as well as its connection to the energies of the earth. It promotes and enhances energy, including meditation, ritual, and spiritual healing energies.
Enhancements
Fire agate is not enhanced.
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Fire Polishing of Glass beads
One way to ensure your beads last for a longer while is to confirm that they are Fire-polished.
Fire
Fire is the amount of colored light reflected from within a diamond. White light entering a stone is separated into the many colors of the rainbow just like a prism. Good fire can only be achieved with very good to excellent proportions.
Fire Agate is chalcedony that contains many layers of tiny inclusions of limonite or goethite, which produce a distinctive firelike iridescence when properly cut to leave only thin protective layers of chalcedony over the inclusions.
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Fire in a stone refers to the streaks and flashes of brilliant color seen when the stone is rotated or moved in a natural or artificial light source. Opals are noted for their fire.
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FIRE OPAL
Fire opals are a type of opal that is firey orange to red in color (but have no opalescence). These opals are rarely transparent - they are usually milky. Opal is a mineral composed of silica (and some water) and is a species of quartz.
Fire
Fire (also known as Dispersion) is when the light enters the Diamond and is bent. It comes back out in a spectrum of amazing colors (like sunlight in rain creates a rainbow). These flashes of beautiful color are the fire in a Diamond.
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A stone's fire is the streaks of brilliant color within it. Good quality opals, like the one above, have a lot of fire.
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Fire
A diamond's fire refers to the dispersion of light into different colored light. Once the light is bounced off the inside walls towards the center of the diamond, it then shoots back through the top of the diamond.
Fire Polished beads give the same appearance as the aurora borealis but are usually less costly; the beads sparkle and shine and reflect light more readily than plain glass beads.
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Gem 'jem Function: noun Etymology: Middle English gemme, from Middle French, from Latin gemma bud, gem
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Fire
Characteristic of certain gemstones that disperse white light into a rainbow of colors. It is a primary characteristic of gem diamonds, opals, fire agate, spectrolite and other stones.
Fire: The rainbow of colors resulting from light rays as they enter a stone.
Fluorescence: The ability of certain gems to glow when heated in low-light situations.
Fire - This is a diamond's ability to break up white light into the rainbow of colors of the spectrum, or its dispersion.
Fractures - Whitish interruptions on the surface of a gemstone where light does not pass through.
Fire (Dispersion): Reflected spectral colors that radiate - flash - from the inside of a polished diamond.
Fire Rose
In addition to the hexagonal shape shown here with 61 facets, this cut can be transferred to pears, navettes and heart-shaped cuts.
Fire: Flashes of different spectrum colors seen in diamonds and other gemstones as the result of dispersion.
Fire Dragon-Fruit Agate
aka Dragon-Fruit Agate
Fire dragon-fruit agate is a cloudy and translucent gray stone with dark speckles.
FIRE - Flashes of spectral colors seen in gemstones as a result of dispersion.
Fire: Often a term used instead of 'brilliance' or 'dispersion'. It is the variety and intensity of colors seen when light is reflected from within the diamond.
Fire: See Dispersion.
Fish hook: A fishhook-shaped finding used to make earrings. The hook end hangs from the lobe of a pierced ear.
Fissure: A fracture or crack in the surface of a stone.
Fire: Often a term used instead of "dispersion." it is the variety and intensity of rainbow colors seen when light is reflected from a diamond.
fire opal
Variety of opal which is yellow, orange, or red in color.
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Fire
The play of color on or within a gemstone as a result of dispersion. Prominent valued feature of Opals and Fire Agates.
Flaw
Any visible imperfection within a gemstone.
Fire: See "dispersion".
Fluorescence: An effect that is seen in some gem-quality diamonds when they are exposed to long-wave ultraviolet light (such as the lighting frequently seen in dance clubs).
FIRE. Term applied to the lustre and brilliancy of gems, pre-eminently the diamond, and secondarily the opal.
FIRST BYE. (First By-water.) Diamond exhibiting a faint greenish tinge.
Fire: Please see our definition of Dispersion, above.
Fluorescence: An effect that is seen in some gem-quality diamonds when they are exposed to long-wave ultraviolet light (such as the lighting frequently seen in dance clubs).
Fire-Polish Beads
Molded glass beads usually found faceted, that are put through extremely high temperatures to increase the shine and soften the facet edges. Back to Index ...
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The luminous property that some gemstones like opals have, whereby they appear to have several vivd colours within them ...
Fire The rainbow or colors that light rays form as they move through a gemstone. This is another word for "dispersion".
Fissure A surface crack on a gemstone. Gems with fissures may be Fracture Filled.
Fire - Also known as "dispersion," fire refers to the flashes of color appearing in many gemstones as white light is separated into spectral colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet).
Fire: Flashes of the different spectrum colors from dispersion.
Fisheye: A diamond whose pavilion (bottom) is exceedingly shallow, producing a glassy appearance and a noticeable lack of brilliancy. Also called shallow, spread or swindle cut.
fire coat - see fire scale
fire scale - the layer of oxidized metal on the surface of gold or silver. It may extend below the surface. Caused by heating an item during soldering.
Fire Opal: Bright orange variety of precious opal with no play of colour. Principally found in Mexico.
Flash Opal: A variety of precious opal that displays a single colour over the entire stone in a flash pattern as the stone is moved.
Fire
Fire refers flashes of spectrum colors seen in a gemstone as the result of dispersion.
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Fire-refined copper
Copper refined by melting and processing in an open hearth or rotary furnace.
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Pearls. Promotes sincerity, truthh and loyalty. Soothes, calms and focuses attention.
MYSTIC FIRE
Mystic fire (also called mystic topaz or rainbow topaz) is topaz that has been color enhanced by coating it with a fine layer of metal atoms (in a process called vacuum deposition). This stone has red, green, violet, and blue streaks.
Mystic Fire Topaz
Designer gemstone created by by Azotic Coating Technology Inc. The gemstone is created by applying a tiny layer of titanium to the underside of a natural white topaz.
Fire-Hearted Pebbles from Burma by C.M. Enriquez
Old as the hills are the blood-red rubies that sparkle on the fingers of beautiful women and in the turbans of Indian maharajas.
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Fire polishing is a less expensive way of polishing cut glass. In this process heat is used to smooth the outer surface of the cut glass. In general, fire polished beads are faceted.
Fire opal breaks the standard rules for opal. Body color is normally only a backdrop for the main attraction - the opal's play of color.
Fire scale is caused when you heat silver or gold and the copper alloy mixes with oxygen in the surrounding air. One way to prevent fire scale is to coat the entire piece you are working on with flux.
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GARNET
The birthstone for the month of January, Garnet, is composed of a group of similar minerals known as the "Garnet Group.
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To heat an item until all moisture is gone and the item becomes permanently hard
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Fire: Spectral colors that radiate from the inside of a diamond. Also called dispersion.
Fluorescence: When exposed to ultraviolet light, the surface of some diamonds exhibit an illuminating bluish color.
Fire is the rainbow prism of light that reflects from within a finished diamond or gemstone and is technically known as dispersion. The better a diamond or gemstone is cut or faceted, the more fire is emitted from within the gemstone.
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Fire
The rainbow or colors that come from light rays as they enter a gemstone.
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