Precious and Decorative Stones

2023: No. 4 (114) CONTENTS

RESEARCH OF SYNTHETIC ANALOGUES AND IMITATIONS OF SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A THEIR IDENTIFICATION METHODOLOGY AS WELL AS DETERMINATION OF THEIR ORIGIN

V. Lyashok
State Gemmological Centre of Ukraine

V.Surova
State Gemmological Centre of Ukraine

О. Horobchyshyn
State Gemmological Centre of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

Precious and Decorative Stones. No. 4 (114), 2023: 12–17

Abstract
The article describes the results of gemological studies of diagnostic features of semi-precious stones synthetic analogues and imitations and the methodology creation for determining their origin and treatment of semi-precious stones based on them.

Keywords: artificial substitutes of semi-precious stones, synthetic analogues, imitations of semi-precious stones, treated semi-precious stones.

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