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Specific Forms of Gemstone Enhancement
From the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA)
Enhancement
Any treatment process other than cutting and polishing that improves the appearance (color / clarity / phenomena), durability, or availability of a gemstone.
- Bleaching
- The use of heat, light and / or other agents to lighten or remove a gemstone's color.
- Coating
- The use of such surface enhancements as lacquering, enameling, inking, foiling, or sputtering of films to improve color uniformity.
- Dyeing
- The introduction of coloring matter into a gemstone to give it new color, intensify present color or improve color uniformity.
- Filling
- The filling of surface breaking cavities or fissures with colorless glass, plastic, solidified borax or similar substances, which are visible under properly illuminated10X magnification. This process willimprove durability, appearance and / or add weight.
- Heating
- The use of heat to effect the desired alteration of color, clarity, and / or phenomena. (Residue of foreign substances in open fractures is not visible under properly illuminated 10X magnification.
- Heat and Pressure
- The use of heat and pressure combined to effect desired alterations of color and / or clarity.
- Impregnation
- The impregnation of a porous gemstone with a colorless agent (usually plastic) to give it durability and improve appearance.
- Lasering
- The use of a laser and chemicals to reach and alter inclusions in diamonds.
- Oiling / Resin Infusion
- The filling of surface breaking fissures with colorless oil, wax, resin or other colorless substances, except glass or plastic to improve the gemstone's appearance.
- Irradiation
- The use of neutrons requiring and environmental safety release from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Gamma and / or electron bombardment to alter a gemstone's color. The irradiation may be followed by a heating process.
- Diffusion
- The use of chemicals in conjunction with high temperatures to produce color and / or asterism-producing inclusions.
- Waxing / Oiling
- The impregnation of colorless wax, paraffin and oil in porous opaque gemstones to improve appearance.
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