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What is the Misfit Gem Labs?
The world of diamonds and gems can often be confusing and difficult to navigate. We’re here to help! The Misfit Gem Lab is a series with new episodes monthly(ish) where we share our gemmological knowledge in hopes to create educational resources for you to be able to help your clients better!
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Ep. 2: Misfit Sapphires
Much like our weird and wonderful selection of diamonds, our sapphires will have you doing a double-take. “I’ve heard of blue sapphires,” you say. “Heck, I’ve even heard of pink and green, but what in Earth’s Holy Spectrum of Light are all these colors about?! Some stones are even two colors! Please explain, Mr. Gem Lab.” Well, not only can sapphires come in any color, depending on the minerals and gasses that are contained within the stone, sapphires can also display a range of phenomena related to light and color. When light travels into a sapphire, it splits into two rays, resulting in something called dichroism, meaning the stone will display two different colors when viewed at different angles (while all sapphires are dichroic, diamonds are not - more on that another time!). Dichroism isn’t the only time we’re seeing double in sapphires.
Color-zoning is when saturation varies during crystal growth, causing areas of light and dark color within a single crystal, usually showing up as stripes and sometimes in a hexagonal pattern (fun fact: sapphire crystals are hexagonal!). Sapphires with two or more distinct colors are known as parti-colored. Inclusions inside sapphires can result in opalescence or a silky sheen, sometimes even resulting in a reflective star, called asterism, in star sapphires. Color change in sapphires is due to trace chemicals (i.e. vanadium), resulting in different outputs from different wavelengths of light. Now you’re smarter! Go, impress your friends.
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Color-zoning is when saturation varies during crystal growth, causing areas of light and dark color within a single crystal, usually showing up as stripes and sometimes in a hexagonal pattern (fun fact: sapphire crystals are hexagonal!). Sapphires with two or more distinct colors are known as parti-colored. Inclusions inside sapphires can result in opalescence or a silky sheen, sometimes even resulting in a reflective star, called asterism, in star sapphires. Color change in sapphires is due to trace chemicals (i.e. vanadium), resulting in different outputs from different wavelengths of light. Now you’re smarter! Go, impress your friends.
Ep. 1: What Makes a Misfit?
What exactly is a Misfit Diamond? It won’t take you long browsing our online catalog to notice that we carry a lot of unusual looking diamonds, unfamiliar colors and shapes, often with whole worlds trapped inside. These oddballs tell stories that are unlike any other, and stand out from crowd, allowing for some remarkable jewelry creations. A diamond’s misfit-ness is highlighted by its inclusions. You know them as "those little whispy things" or "those peppery bits", but more formally, some examples of diamond inclusions are: feathers, internal fractures that have a feathery appearance; clouds, groups of microscopic minerals; or other minerals and crystals - at times even diamond crystals. Commonly, the black spots in diamonds have been thought to be carbon; however, we're setting the record straight! The black spots are rarely carbon, but are usually other black minerals usually pertaining to the amphibole or pyroxene groups (which are really just fancy words for other rocks). Find your unique Misfit.
A Circadian Chronicle of Corundum
(with Carlo Constantino)
If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like here at Misfit Diamonds when you order a diamond or a sapphire, A Circadian Chronicle of Corundum (with Carlo Constantino) is a glimpse into the journey from order to delivery. Okay sure, it might not always be via vintage-typewriter-transcribed-paper-airplane letter, but when a jeweler orders a stone through our online store or by email, that stone is automatically removed from our online inventory and pulled manually by our staff. If they are looking for something that isn’t on our webstore, they can reach out and make a request based on their specific needs, after which our team will select any available options and correspond accordingly. Once the client has selected their stone(s), we ship it out and wait to see their creation on social media!
Stones in this short: Montana Sapphires, Australian Sapphires, Sri Lankan Sapphires
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