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LOUPE:
A special magnifying glass used by jewelers to view the details of a gemstone or other object. The loupe makes internal flaws and surface blemishes more apparent and allows jewelers to appraise the color, cut, and clarity of a gemstone.

A Loupe is just a magnifying glass. It helps to see the magnified image of gemstone and serves as the identification and grading tool. A Loupe is made of a powerful convex lens.

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Inspecting Your Diamond With A Loupe
The jewelerīs loupe is an essential tool for looking deep inside a diamond, or closely inspecting a piece of jewelry.

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A diamond is termed loupe clean when an experienced expert finds no internal defects with an aplanatic and achromatic 10 x loupe.

loupe clean Describing a flawless gem; no visible inclusions under 10X magnification.
luster Reflections off the surface of a gem or pearl.

Loupe: Magnifying glass usually of 10X.
Melee: Small Diamonds under .20 carat.
Mohs scale: The ten-point grading scale of mineral hardness.

Loupe
Magnifying glass used in the trade to examine diamonds.
Melee
Small diamonds under 0.20 carat.

Loupe: A compact magnifying glass used to examine stones and settings. The most common jewelers loupe magnifies objects ten times.

Loupe - A special magnifying glass that enables you to take a closer look at a gemstone or other object. It makes internal flaws and surface blemishes more apparent for assessing color, cut and other aspects of the stone.

Loupe: Any small magnifying glass mounted for hand use, to hold up to the eye socket or attach to a pair of glasses.
Luster: The hue and depth of reflection from pearls, opals, or other opaque stones.

Loupe
A small magnifying lens used to examine diamonds. 10x magnification is the standard.
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Loupe: A magnifying glass usually of 10X used to examine diamonds.
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loupe
A device used by jewellers and lapidaries to magnify and inspect gemstones, ususally to the power of 10
luster
The sheen of a gemstone or pearl, or the nature and intensity of the light it reflects ...

Loupe Clean A gemstone is said to be Loupe Clean when no inclusions or defects are visible when the gem is viewed with 10 times magnification. See also Eye Clean.

Loupe: Magnifying glass usually of 10X.
Luster - The quality of reflected and refracted light from the surface of a gemstone or pearl.
Make - Trade term referring to the proportions, symmetry, and polish of a gemstone.

loupe - a hand-held magnifying instrument used to view gemstones. The industry standard for loupes is a 10x magnification.
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Loupe
Loupe is a French word for magnifying glass. It is a small magnifying lens used to examine gemstones. 10X magnification is the standard.
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loupe A magnification device for the viewing of small objects such as diamonds and gemstones. The standard jeweler's or diamond dealer's loupe is 10x since this is what is required to place a clarity grade on a diamond. Also see triplet.

Loupe: A small jeweler's magnifying glass. Most have a two lens (corrected) system and are of 10x power.

Loupe:
A small magnifying lens used to view diamond and jewelry, usually 10x magnifications.
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The loupe: A loupe is a small magnifying device, which, most commonly, magnifies the object to be viewed to ten times its size (10x). There are five major types used by those observing gems: handheld, eye socket, headpiece, eyeglass, and darkfield.

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loupe (n) a type of microscope used by jewellers to inspect and identify gemstones.
lustre (n) the appearance of a smooth surface, e.g., of a stone, due to light shining on it.

Loupe
French word for magnifying glass, universally applied to the version used by most jewellery professionals, with a 10X magnification, although other powers are used. Diamond loupes are normally high quality, colour corrected (achromatic).

Loupe
A small magnifying glass, either hand held or placed in the eye socket. A 10X loupe should be used to examine diamonds.
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Loupe - The magnifying tool used to examine gemstones and jewelry. Typically to 10X magnification.

LOUPE A hand held magnifying glass used by members of the jewelry industry to examine Diamonds and gemstones. Loupes are available in different levels of magnification.

Loupe
A loupe is a small magnifying glass used to view gemstones. Usually 10x, or ten-power, magnification.

Loupe
A small hand-held magnifier (usually 10 power) used to examine gems and jewelry
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LOUPE-VISIBLE - Visible with the aid of a loupe (a magnifying eye piece used to examine a gemstone, usually 10X).
LUSTER - The appearance of a surface in reflected light.

Loupe: magnifying glass worn over one eye; with a single lens or a system of lenses for greater magnifying power.
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Loupe
Small magnifying lens used by jewelers to examine diamonds. Usually comes with standard10X magnification, to prevent different evaluations of the same flaw.
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Loupe
A magnification tool used by jewelers to analyze gemstones and other jewelry materials. Diamonds and color stones are always evaluated at 10x magnification and in the face-up position.

Clarity, Loupe Grade: an assessment of a gemstone's clarity when viewed with 10x magnification.
Transparency: refers to a gemstone's relative ability to transmit light.
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Jeweler's Loupes & Hastings Triplets
A Jeweler's Loupe is the most basic instrument used for evaluating gemstones. Jeweler's Loupes are usually 10x magnification and ultr-compact.

Eye Loupe:A hand-held, magnifying lens used by jewelry experts to examine gemstones. The lens generally provides 10x magnification, but magnification can be higher. Facet:A flat, polished surface cut into a gemstone.

March-April 1934, Diamond Loupes, by R. Shipley, p. 38, 2pp.
May-June 1934, An Engraved Diamond, p. 75, 1p.
Nov.-Dec. 1934, The Multiple Source Theory of the Diamond, by S. Ball, p. 156, 4pp.
Sept.-Oct. 1935, Colored Diamonds, by S.

loupe Small magnifying lens used to observe certain aspects of a gemstone. Loupes usually have a magnification level of 10x.

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Fracture filling is an impermanent process whereby small fissures of the stone are filled in with a translucent glasslike substance that is impossible to detect without a loupe. However, with a loupe it should be quite clear.

Though most diamonds may appear colorless to the naked eye, the majority of diamonds contain slight traces of yellow or light brown when viewed under a jeweler's loupe.

The basic rule with Tanzanite is that it should be at least eye clean but preferably loupe clean also. Top grade stones are loupe clean. Any lesser clarity grade will affect the value downwards and denotes a lower grade stone.

Also, under close inspection with a loupe, the facet shapes of some CZs appear different from diamonds. Both gems disperse light a little differently. Dispersion is just a scientific term for the breaking up of light into its spectral colors.

All clarity grading is performed at 10-times magnification using a hand loupe or gemological microscope under both artificial daylight and darkfield illumination conditions.

A diamond's clarity ranking is determined by the number, size, type and placement of inclusions visible under the scrutiny of a 10x magnifying loupe or microscope. Internally flawless diamonds are very rare and expensive.

Harry Winston examining the Briolette of India with a jeweler's loupe.
After disappearing for four centuries, the stone surfaced again in 1950 when the jeweler, Harry Winston, of New York, bought it from an Indian Maharajah. It was sold to Mrs. I.W.

A diamond's clarity is measured using a jeweler's loupe (a small magnifying glass used to view gemstones) under 10-power magnification.

A perfect diamond with perfect clarity, or clearness, is rare, but the good news is that most flaws that exist in jewelry grade diamonds can't be seen without looking at the gemstones through a jeweler's magnifying loupe.

Diamonds are graded for clarity under 10x loupe magnification. Grades range from Flawless (diamonds which are completely free of blemishes and inclusions), to Included 3 (diamonds which possess large, ...

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I 1 - These stones have larger inclusions that are very easy to see with a 10X loupe.
Some inclusions may be seen without a loupe.
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Once again, the most universally accepted and most documented system is the GIA system but there are also numerous other trade based systems in use. The basic rule with Tanzanite is that it should be at least eyeclean but preferably loupeclean too.

A method of identifying authenticity of pearls by examining the pearl surface with a 10-power magnifier such as a loupe. If it looks grainy, there is a good chance it is an imitation.

Clarity: The lack of internal flaws that a gemstone has. Clarity of a diamond is measured with a 10x loupe and graded on a scale from FL or flawless, meaning perfect to I3, meaning having flaws or inclusions visible with the naked eye.

Careful examination through the crown facets (not through the table, since that's oriented on the optic axis) under a loupe or microscope should easily reveal facet doubling caused by double refraction, ...

To the naked eye, moissanite is virtually indistinguishable from diamond. Under a 10x loupe it is quite easy to distinguish from diamond due to its heavy double refraction, manifesting as the doubling of facet edges.

Eye-clean - A gemstone where the flaws cannot be seen without a 10-power loupe.
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