Gems and Precious Stones, edicted by Kennie Lyman
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- Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones, edicted by Kennie Lyman
- Soft cover, pocket book size 4.5x0.7x7.5, 450 full color photos
- A heavy duty introduction lets you know this is a serious scientific book covering way more than the basic Moh's hardness scale. Here we also have physical and chemical properties, density, crystal structure, cleavage, optical qualities, color and dispersion, spectroscopy, and more, illustrated with charts and graphs as needed.
- The first section of Gem Descriptions give plenty of space to the precious stones: Diamond, Ruby and Sapphires, followed by lesser gems grouped by type rather than alphabetically, although if you don't know your classifications the index can help you out.
- For each stone the entry discussed appearance (with photos), distinctive features, value, and where they are found, closing with "Simulations and Synthetics" if applicable.