[Jewelry making - Article 00628] - Re: [Orchid] Disappearing diamonds fired in PMC

[hans]

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Hi, Linda Kaye-Moses,

    Your list is most interesting. http://tinyurl.com/you9s9 

    I am certainly going to heat up garnets, moonstone and preridot to
    about 600C for 30 minutes( and longer) and see if they survive.I
    won't heat up tourmaline, because in a previous post (sorry, I can't
    give you the url, because I could not find it on the ganoksin search
    engine) I heated tourmaline to (I think) some 700C before it died. I
    do think that my "experiments" are not the true blue of everything.
    It might well be that diamonds DO evaporate in an situation like PMC
    Standard. I do not work with PMC, but it would be interesting if
    there was a PMC worker on ganoksin that put a diamond in the oven
    properly and photograph the results.It is hardly difficult or
    expensive and the result would be most interesting for all. 

    Rest assured, the garnet, moonstone, periodot results are just over
    the horizon! Coming to a computer near you! 

Cheers, Hans Meevis
http://www.meevis.com
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