How do gemstones get their color?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Chemistry of Lab-Created Gemstones
Jim's zones are essentially salts. Salts in chemistry are usually, you know, it's something that has this ionic bond. And then they are attracted to each other similar to magnets,. The negative and the positive bring them together. But stuff though, too, of course, applying to gemstones is like always a conversation about, yeah, but do the naturally occurring things really make them where we should pay that much for them? It makes it a little bit more complicated.
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