Any pearl experts out there?
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you can put them in jewrly cleaner and if they disolve they were real.
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Pearls are created by certain molluscs most notably oysters as a result of irritation. As a response to an irritating object inside its shell, the mollusk will deposit layers of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of the minerals aragonite or calcite (both crystalline forms of calcium carbonate) held together by an organic horn-like compound called conchiolin. This combination of calcium carbonate and conchiolin is called nacre, or more commonly mother-of-pearl.
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You should take it to a jewlers they will be able to test it for you.
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lulu? what does your name mean? ok, i looked it up and it means pearl?
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You will not be able to do it for your class.  It takes a lot of time, skill, boats, oysters, and luck!\n\nSee for example:\n\nhttp://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/POIB/12/POIB12.pdf\n\nWhen I visitted Broome, in northern Western Australia, I saw how it is done.  It involves a skilled worker doing surgery on the living oyster, to place a "seed" into its matle.  Then, the oyster is returned to the sea, to recover, if it can, and to slowly cover the seed with extra nacre.  Then, it is harvested again; this time, the oyster is killed.\n\nYou need baby oysters, called sprat.  You need seed pearls.  You need to learn the technique, handed down from Mr Mikimoto of Japan.\n\nIt is not suitable as a practical exercise for schoolkids.
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Ahhhh this is a fun one, and I just happened to know where you can get this info LOL  Please don't ask why, let's just say my bivalves were experiencing issues:
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I sell pearl jewelries on ebay, and I get my items wholesale from the Philippines.\n\nI got my sources not on the Web though, but actually traveling and meeting with suppliers and checking the quality and workmanship of their products. I went to the Philippines and scoured for possible suppliers (I had contacts who helped me identify suppliers).\n\nYou will have a hard time looking for a reliable supplier from Asia on the Web. One of your main problem will be quality of the item. They can show you a good photo but what is shipped to you may not necessarily the same quality; or quality will be so inconsistent that one necklace would be ok while the other looks so bad.
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Here's the pages with the info. You'll have to read fast. Don't wait so long next time. Good Luck!!\n\nhttp://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/gemstone/aquamari/aquamari.htm\n\nhttp://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/garnets.htm\n\nhttp://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/gemstone/class.htm
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This past summer the wife and I took a trip to NC. Spruce Pine to be precise. We went "Rock Hounding" or "Gem Mining" at place called  Gem Mountain.\n\nhttp://www.gemmountain.com/aquamarine.htm\n\nWhile at Gem Mountain we purchased one bucket of minerals and mined at their Aquamarine mine near by.\n\nWe found some nice specimens, but one in particular stuck a nerve, The image of this Aquamarine is posted at my site, Take a look:\n\nhttp://my.opera.com/TheMineralExchange/albums/showpic.dml?album=157930&picture=2347315\n\nOk.. so after viewing the image, Aquamarine's stats are as follows:\nA) : Green-blue\nB) : White\nC) : 2.63-2.91\nD) : 7 1/2-8\nE) : Hexagonal\nF) : Imperfect\nG) : Conchoidal, Uneven, Brittle.\n\nHey Teacher?. did I pass?
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http://www.stinsv.com/cgi/search.pl?S=jewel+staite&C=57
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i have been using 6in pumpkin colored Zoom worms. they have worked well. in the post-spawn season, try using a wacky worm. the fish are fickle, but can't seem to resist them. buzz bates and other top water lures are working really well in the early morning hours.try using these over fallen timber.
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bahrain is the island of pearls
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Not all black pearls are created equally. For example, the composition of a perfectly round, perfectly clean lustrous natural color black Tahitian south sea cultured pearl necklace is a true rarity. One can only imagine how rare such a grouping of pearls truly is. Each year, hundreds of thousands of oysters are cultured in the mysterious islands off French Polynesia. And each year, thousands of farmers stand there sun-burned before their harvests, having waited six years, in the hopes that just one in one hundred pearls will return a paragon; a large, round, lustrous pearl. For black pearls, the job is doubly hard as black is the absence of light. We all know that luster or the reflective quality of a pearl is the amount of light a pearl shows. Here we have a classic dichotomy. How does a pearl that appears to be dark shine at the same time? To quote John Steinbeck in his novel, The Pearl, "it captured the light and gave it back in a silver incandescence."\nThe black pearl, due to it's rare quality is far more precious.
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Yeehaw! Now we get to find out if Libby is truly dead or not! Also, did you hear that Locke and Eko are supposedly going to find The Flame in this one? In the previews, they lift up the plane thing and underneath it was something that resembled a underground hatch door (much like The Staff.) I'm betting that someone finds The Pearl as well.\n\nBrodie Banky, just cuz the season is over doesn't mean you have to stop with the Lost craze. Have you been following The Lost Experience? It is agame that connects with the show and mostly has to do with The Hanso Foundation. I presume that it will continue even when Lost is done.\n\nHere is my take on the game.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak0sQekCwb77msKPN7cZJ7Hsy6IX?qid=1006050428990
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Hmm, I'm gonna guess, Sounds to me like a limpet, or a sea snail can be in that category. just a guess tho, I live on the beach lol
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an RGT42 in pearl black, not the blue lavender color.. I'm thinking of getting a Prestige too.
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i REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL TAKE THAT OUT.  wHY NOT TRY BEADING IT?  BEADS AND SEQUINS ARE IN NOW AND THERE ARE ALL KNIDS OF POSSIBILITIES.