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gemewizard.com free toolDate: 10/7/2009 8:54:44 PM
Author: GoodSoul
I am so so so bad in colors!!! Would be great if there is a color chart somewhere or some sites with good pictures to define the colors..... a ''Gem colors for dummy'' would be great!! Thanks!
That's because tourmaline is a dichroic stone, and along one axis in the rough it would be yellowish green, and the other axis, bluish green, and the lapidary probably cut it in such a way to expose the yellow and blue components of both axis'. I have such a piece of Afghan tourmaline rough that is a true bluish green mint color in one axis and more of a yellow green in the other.Date: 10/7/2009 9:34:42 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
Thanks TL!
This is one of those stones where I first I thought 'yellowish green', but the more I looked at it, the more I thought I saw some bluish in there too. But that doesn't make sense does it? Can you have blue and yellow? Doesn't that just make green? Haha.
Date: 10/7/2009 9:41:38 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
Oops, I should have noted in the first post that it's a garnet.
Pics anywhere TL?Date: 10/7/2009 10:41:34 PM
Author: tourmaline_lover
I have a garnet like that with blue, yellow and green all mixed in.
Here you go, and you can clearly see the green, yellow and blue. 2.8 ct grossular garnet.Date: 10/7/2009 10:51:55 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
Pics anywhere TL?Date: 10/7/2009 10:41:34 PM
Author: tourmaline_lover
I have a garnet like that with blue, yellow and green all mixed in.
Yeah, for some reason I always thought green would have either a secondary blue or secondary yellow, but I guess there can be both? Or am I not using the word secondary correctly?
Green is made up of blue and yellow, so if there''s more blue we talk (when gems are the subject) about a blue undertone, and if there''s more yellow about a yellow undertone.Date: 10/7/2009 10:51:55 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
Pics anywhere TL?Date: 10/7/2009 10:41:34 PM
Author: tourmaline_lover
I have a garnet like that with blue, yellow and green all mixed in.
Yeah, for some reason I always thought green would have either a secondary blue or secondary yellow, but I guess there can be both? Or am I not using the word secondary correctly?