Complex spectral studies of turquoise and its basic imitations
| V.Surova State Gemmological Centre of Ukraine |
| О. Geleta State Gemmological Centre of Ukraine |
| О.Rybnikova Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
| Language: Ukrainian |
| Precious and Decorative Stones. No. 2 (88), 2017: 4-9 |
| Abstract There was a research of 240 samples of natural turquoise and its various imitations, which are commonly found on the Ukrainian market in order to improve the diagnostic techniques and to create a database based on such a research: the density, the index of refraction, microscopic studies, XRF, IR spectroscopy, X-ray spectral electron-probe microanalysis, research in thin sections. |
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