[Jewelry making - Article 00523] - Re: [Orchid] CZ-synthetic

[J&N Holt]

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>     Either way, it is not a simulant because it is not simulating
>     anything

    Beth, Your point is well taken, a simulant must simulate. I think
    however that   a man made material having no natural counterpart,
    simulating nothing, but beautiful enough to be called a gem, "(FTC
    notwithstanding}"requires a new descriptive term. I don't think the
    FTC and other authorities in the field, (Liddicoat among others),
    all of whom say that to be called a gem the material must be
    natural, can be dismissed that lightly. To call dichroic glass a gem
    for example would be a gross distortion , yet it is certainly man
    made , beautiful  and simulates nothing. Any thoughts? Jerry in
    Kodiak 


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