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    The Gemstones Built for Every Day, and the Ones Worth Saving
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    The Gemstones Built for Every Day, and the Ones Worth Saving
    A ring worn every day meets the car door, the keyboard and the kitchen tap before lunch. Some gemstones take that in stride for decades; others are better kept for... Read more
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    The Line Between a Good Stone and a Great One
    Two blue sapphires sit on the same tray, cut to the same oval, set in the same 14k white gold. One is nine hundred dollars and the other is nine... Read more
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    Treated vs Untreated Gemstones
    Treated vs Untreated Gemstones
    Two sapphires under the same lamp, identical in every way a shopper can see, separated by three days in a furnace and a fourfold difference in price. This guide sorts... Read more
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    Natural vs Synthetic Gemstones, and How to Tell Them Apart
    Natural vs Synthetic Gemstones, and How to Tell Them Apart
    Two emeralds under one lamp, identical in every way a shopper can see, separated by tens of millions of years and a single word on the tag. This guide draws... Read more
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    Gemstone Clarity Explained, Inclusion by Inclusion
    Gemstone Clarity Explained, Inclusion by Inclusion
    Every gemstone keeps a record of how it grew, written in silk, needles and healed fractures. This guide reads gemstone clarity the way a jeweler reads it, naming the three... Read more
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    Gemstone Color, and How to Read It Properly
    Gemstone Color, and How to Read It Properly
    Two sapphires can share a birth certificate and sell for ten times apart, and the gap is almost always color. This gemstone color guide reads it the way a jeweler... Read more
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    Gemstone Hardness, and How Long a Stone Really Lasts
    Gemstone Hardness, and How Long a Stone Really Lasts
    Every stone in a jewelry box is quietly keeping score. Hardness ranks scratch resistance from 1 to 10, and it explains why one stone still shines after forty years while... Read more
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