Startled by orange phosphorescence!

[evergreen]

Ok so obviously this is a Known Thing about HPHT with blue nuance but Y'ALL I can't believe I never looked for it! I was incidentally taking a picture of this poor OEC (sadly waiting its turn to be set) by a window, quite out of the sun, and as I turned around to put it away, WOW. Not subtle!! I was totally startled, and it wasn't even particularly dark in the room. Love this, and now I'm thinking I may pair it with some alexandrite (or... Slightly shifty chrysoberyl) that's a green body color but gets orange-rose sparkles, like the "silky" sapphires out there.

 

[DejaWiz]

That is friggin awesome!

 

[Karl_K]

kicken

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

That's very cool, see if it will grant a wish or something
You won't know unless you try.

 

[evergreen]

That's very cool, see if it will grant a wish or something
You won't know unless you try.

I thought I'd somehow melted it, like it was glowing hot, which obviously is ridiculous but it was giving off rather a lot of light!! I grabbed my kids to show them so I don't even know how long it lasts we took turns putting it by the window and back into the room until everyone got bored and wandered off, ha.

Wishes tomorrow!!

 

[LunaIzzy]

 

[Mooshi]

that is way cool! I wish they had a filter on websites to actually look for cool things like this!

 

[Lisa Loves Shiny]

I love this!

 

[evergreen]

that is way cool! I wish they had a filter on websites to actually look for cool things like this!

I wish I knew what to look for, besides HPHT with blue nuance. It's an I color. ‍ Anybody wise know how much this effect varies from one blue HPHT diamond to another?

 

[0-0-0]

From what I have seen there’s no correlation between color and presence/strength of phosphorescence in HPHT grown diamonds. I have only seen phosphorescence mentioned in GCAL reports.