ORIENTAL PORCELAIN
The Orient was the birthplace of porcelain, and China and its neighbours had a virtual monopoly on its manufacture for around 1,000 years.
ORIENT:
The characteristics sheen of fine natural and cultured pearls.
See also: Pearl Nacre
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The names, ruby, sapphire, oriental amethyst, oriental emerald, and oriental topaz are given to the transparent red, blue, purple, green, and yellow varieties of the mineral.
orient The iridescent effect visible in finer quality pearls; also called overtone.
overcolor A stone with a hue that is overly dark in tone, usually above eighty-five percent.
overtone See orient.
Oriental Pearl: A pearl that has formed naturally with no human intervention.
Ormolu: A term referring to gilded bronze or brass mounts. From the French for "ground gold" ...
Orient: The rainbow effect that is on or just below the pearl's surface.
Pavilion: The lower part of a faceted gem below the girdle.
Point: One hundredth of a carat.
Orient
The pearly lustre seen on pearls or mother-of-pearl shells. Also known as iridescence.
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ORIENT - The soft iridescent glow on or just below the surface of a pearl or cultured pearl. It is caused by the interference and diffraction of light from the minute crystals comprising the pearl's nacre.
ORIENTAL. A term much used in the gem trade to distinguish stones of entirely differing chemical and crystallographic nature to which a common name is applied, as "Oriental topaz," bestowed on specimens of yellow corundum of gem quality.
Oriented Stone
A gemstone cut to place the optical axis, and resulting phenomenon, in proper position--star sapphires and star rubies.
Orient Pearl
Orient pearl is the technical term for genuine pearls and/or natural pearls that form inside oysters without human intervention.
Oriental pearl - a pearl which forms normally without human intervention or creation.
Ormolu - This is a term which refers to gilded bronze or brass mounts. It comes from the French word meaning "ground gold" ...
orient
A characteristic of the irridescence or luster of natural and cultured pearls
overtone
The secondary colour of the surface of a natural or cultured pearl, created when the layers of nacre split white light into its component colours ...
Orient
The shimmering, iridescent play-of-colour seen on or just below the surface of the pearl.
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Color Orientation
Gemstone crystals rarely have a uniform and consistent hue and color saturation throughout the material.
Orient
The typical sheen as displayed and seen in Pearls
Ornamental stones
Include all minerals which are suitable for ornamental purpose and jewelry. Most of the mineral are from Opaque nature, this not transparent minerals (except some Agates).
Orient. The fineness of the luster of a pearl, or as is said in the trade, the orient, depends upon the number of layers that take part in the reflection, ...
Orient - The iridescent play-of-color that gives pearls their deep inner glow.
Oval - A cut shape for gemstones.
Overtone - The hint of secondary color found in pearls. Typically pink, green, blue and silver.
ORIENT: The iridescent luster of a pearl.
ORTHORHOMBIC: A crystal system with three axes of unequal length, each perpendicular to the plane of the other two axes.
PANCHA-RATNA: The Five Gems.
Orient: The rainbow effect that seems to encircle a pearl's surface.
Pavilion: A diamond's bottom portion.
Point: One hundredth of a carat.
Oriental Opal - Hungary was the source of nearly all of the best opal supplied to Europe in early times. It was usually sent from the mines near Czerwenitza to Constantinople and forwarded to various European cities.
Oriental Pearl - Natural pearl
Ormolu - Gilded bronze or brass mounts.
Oxidation - Chemical process to blacken or tarnish. Slphur and oxygen is used on silver.
Orient
Term used to describe the iridescent play of light in pearls
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Orient...Characteristic sheen and iridescence, as displayed in a good pearl.
Orientation... Applied to crystals, this means visualizing the disposition of the principal directions within the crystal.
ORIENT - Minute prismatic sheen on or just below the surface of a pearl or cultured pearl caused by the interference and diffraction of light from the minute crystals comprising the nacre.
Orient
The distinctive iridescent colors seen on the surface of a pearl.
Oriental pearl ...
orient
The layers of nacre that form a pearl contain tiny light-reflecting crystals. When there are enough layers of crystals and they align in a certain way, the reflected light will form a prismatic effect on the surface of the pearl.
The Oriental circlet was also designed by Albert and set with opals which were Prince Albert's favorite stone. It was later altered by Queen Alexandra and reset with rubies that were presented to Victoria in 1876.
In the Orient, cat's eye is highly revered as a preserver of good fortune, the belief being that it guards the owner's wealth and it protects him from poverty. In Sri Lanka cat's eye was considered to be a potent charm against evil spirits.
Diamond oriented so that a cleavage plane (pink line) is horizontal.
Same view but with carbon atoms shown as tetrahedra to better show this plane of weakness. Note the prominent sheets of carbon atoms parallel to the cleavage.
Note the orientation of the 4 axes and their + and - ends. If viewed vertically (down the c axis), the axes divide a circle into 6 equal parts and the axial notation reads (starting with a +) as +,-,+,-,+,-. The positive and negative ends alternating.
Randomly oriented hematite platelets exhibit interference colors under oblique illumination. The host is a very unusual sunstone from Tanzania. (Photos: Wimon Manorotkul) ...
The great Oriental traveler, Sir Richard Francis Burton, had a large star sapphire which he referred to as his "talisman" .Just the mere sight of the stone was believed to bring luck and he showed it to people everywhere he went.
Gerad Yosca Oriental Themed Charm bracelet
Charm Ring: A ring with a charm attached to the band.
Charoite: A silicate found in Russia it is purple in color and rare.
Luster and orient. Luster is the sharpness and intensity of reflections on the pearl's surface, and orient is the iridescent colors one sees within the pearl. The higher the luster and orient, the more valuable the pearl.
four point orientations A cutter places the table on an area where the four single grains converge. A very common orientation and it includes almost all sawed stones.
Pearls: The "orient" of pearls, is a delicate, shifting, iridescent color layer that is distinct from the basic body color of the pearl or from its luster.
Many spiritually-oriented people believe that increased spiritual energies are now becoming available to us. Chrysoprase is a stone which can help us to peacefully absorb these energies, and to make transformation a natural part of our daily lives.
GemstonesInclude diamond, brilliant, beryl, emerald chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; onyx, plasma; tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; oriental topaz; turquoise, zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, ...
The fixed orientation of a rock's crystals, based on the Earth's magnetic field at the time of the rock's formation, that remains constant even when the magnetic field changes.
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Light reflecting from these overlapping layers produces a characteristic iridescent luster, also known as the "orient of pearl." An irritant is introduced to initiate the formation of a cultured pearl.
Pearls formed by saltwater oysters are commonly known as oriental pearls and those produced by freshwater mollusks are called freshwater pearls. Our pearl stock is freshwater only, and like most other freshwater pearls, is cultured in China.
The higher the luster, or "orient", the more valuable the specimen. The larger the pearl, the greater the value.
Advantage has been taken of the colouring matter thus afforded to imitate artificially the Oriental pearl.
Powder diffraction (XRD) is a technique use to characterize the crystallographic structure, crystallite size (grain size), and preferred orientation in polycrystalline or powdered solid samples.
The material in a streak sample thus consists of a powder composed of randomly oriented microscopic crystals rather than a lattice structure containing the uniformly oriented unit cells which compose a macroscopic crystal.
The only gems which are ascertained to be minerals of Siam, are the sapphire, the Oriental ruby, and the Oriental topaz [yellow sapphire].
Orient is the depth, iridescence and translucence of the nacre layering. Luster is the glow or shine created when light travels through the nacre of the Pearl and is different than the light reflected off the surface of a Pearl.
The word comes from the Greek karation, the Italian carato and the Arabic qirat, all meaning 'fruit of the carob tree', as the carob seed was formerly used to balance the scales in Oriental bazaars.
The finest pearls (called oriental pearl) are produced by the pearl oyster.
He loved the oriental style and even had the door bell cast in oriental motif at the factory. He made the handles on a chest of drawers by cutting in half some Boucher bangles in bamboo pattern.
Twinning is a common error in crystalization in which two crystals grow out of one another or next to one another, and their crystal lattice is oriented differently from one another (some twins are like a mirror image of each other).
Occasionally inclusions in cut diamonds are so orientated that they are reflected several times through the neighboring facet.
They have a shimmering iridescence which is called orient luster. The principal oyster beds lay in the Persian Gulf, along the coasts of India and Sri Lanka, and in the Red Sea.
Throughout Asian history, jade has been the most respected and revered stone in the Orient.
When linked to a culture, there is no doubt that jade is the stone which belongs with China, where it has been considered sacred.
The modern scientific explanation is not nearly as romantic, but still quite fascinating: A natural pearl (often called an Oriental pearl) forms when an irritant works its way into a particular species of oyster, mussel or clam.
Usage: It can be used as a scanning device for those of us who are not visually orientated, to get an overall view of a person's light system to see the thought forms in their energy body.
Pearl Essence - Also called essence d'orient. A crystalline substance extracted from fish scales and combined with acrylic resins. Used to make imitation pearls.
Thus in a given orientation, two refractive indices, one associated with each polarized ray, is detected and the specimen is termed doubly refractive.
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