الثلاثاء، 6 نوفمبر 2018

Formation Process Of A Pearl

By Sandra Sullivan


For over many years that passed the pearls, very extraordinary gems, were considered as one of the most beautiful treasures that can be found on the seabed and on oysters. It was used as jewelry for women, people created a way for it to be a part of fashion. Before it becomes a Hawaiian Pearl Jewelry, take a look at how this beautiful thing was formed.

Conchiolin and Calcium Carbonate is what a pearl is made up. Most people considered that natural ones made through an accidental process. Because the starting point of this is done through a tiny parasite who wants to enter mollusk.

Natural pearls are formed through a parasite, which is referred to as an irritant. This thing makes its own way to enter either into a clam, mussel, or oyster. When the oyster, then, will create a defensive mechanism, a fluid that is mainly being used as a hard coating for the irritant. The liquid coating is made up is calcium carbonate and conchiolin.

The more the process is repeated, then producing a pearl. The procedure of creation is said to take about three or more years. They can come in many shapes, making the perfectly round ones to be the rarest types, because it is what jewelry maker uses for their products.

Cultural pearls are formed in a somewhat the same process as what the natural one. This happens through implantation of a tissue, referred to as the graft, to a shell. A donation is done by another mollusk to another same kind, that causes a reaction. This reaction is when the recipient creates a sac that will coat the graft and will trigger to secrete calcium carbonate. Hence, a nacre will be the product.

Several methods could be used in making a cultural pearl, a shell form both the sea or freshwater can be used, manually transplanting the tissue into the clam, and adding a perfect spherical bead to be the nucleus. This a process which both involves natural and human occurrences.

Imitation pearls are made through dipping a glass bead into a solution that has fish scales. This type of coating, unlike the calcium carbonate and the conchiolin, is thin and can easily wear off. This is also a reason why the weight is different from the others, and it is also the smoothness that makes this really different from other pearls.

With the creation of fake ones, people get counterfeited. Fakes do not have any same process in the other two since you could only make one in a minute. But to know whether the one you have is fake or not, you have to rub it against your teeth, when the color starts wearing off, then that is a hoax.

Before even making any ornaments and pieces of jewelry out of these precious gems, the process they underwent is very long. But after all that, we can see how beautiful and amazing it is. If you happen to own, you must take care of it properly and responsibly because it was made in a very special and long process.




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