[Jewelry making - Article 00376] - Re: [Orchid] CZ-Synthetic

[Lee Einer]

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    This is a matter of semantics. As commonly employed, the term
    synthetic differentiates natural stones from man-made stones of
    identical crystalline structure and composition, whereas the term
    simulant denotes synthetic stones which are not identical in
    crystalline structure or composition to the natural stones which
    they emulate. 

    While there may be lab-created gems which neither emulate a natural
    stone nor have a natural counterpart, it would be redundant to refer
    to them as synthetic. Do you often, in normal conversation, refer to
    "synthetic YAG?" Probably not, as there is no need to differentiate
    it from a natural counterpart. It is useful, OTOH, to refer to such
    material as a diamond simulant, because that is it's common purpose. 

    You could, of course, insist on personally employing language in a
    different usage from everyone else in the field, but the purpose of
    language is communication,  and if you employ terms in a way
    meaningful to you personally but contrary to the generally accepted
    usage, you thwart the purpose of language. You would, in effect, be
    talking just to hear your own voice. And what point is there in
    that? 

Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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