Corundum
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Corundum
（Butterworths gem books）
Butterworths-Heinemann, c1990
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book attempts to convey a sense of the Eastern appreciation of the ruby and the sapphire, whilst at the same time providing details of the more technical aspects of these gems, this information having come largely from the West. It aims to compensate for the lack of information currently available on the corundum gems. Corundum is chiefly an Asian gem in origin, and the author sees this fact as pertinent to the relative scarcity of published material about it. The East remains an alien region with a foreign culture, and the author considers these factors to be barriers to the free flow of information. He has lived in the East for many years, and has thus gained an insight into those gems which are Eastern in origin.
Table of Contents
- History of corundum
- chemistry and crystallography
- physical and optical properties
- colour and luminescence
- inclusions of corundum
- treatments
- synthetic corundums and assembled stones - their manufacture and identification
- methods of fashioning
- quality in corundum and famous rubies and sapphires
- formation of corundum deposits
- world sources of corundum - the Mogok Stone Tract, Burma, - Thailand and Cambodia, - Sri Lanka, - India, - Australia, - East Africa, - Montana, USA.
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