[Jewelry making - Article 00054] - Re: [Orchid] Alexandrite Ring Repair

[David L. Huffman]

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>         The disagreement may be one of semantics. 

Hi Lee;

    Right . . .  I've always confused that.  Simulant is the word I was
    looking for.  It's a synthetic corundum, that is, chemically a
    corundum, but sythensized in a lab.  If it's meant to look as if it
    were an alexandrite, it's simulating an alexandrite, hence, a
    simulant.  Have I got that right? 

David L. Huffman

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