Thursday, November 8, 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.

What comprises a pearl is an estimated of 100% conchiolin and calcium carbonate. People refer the way a natural type is made to be incidental. Because the process starts from a single microscopic parasite who wants to invade the shell.

The starting point of the procedure is when an irritant, a small parasite, occupies a shell. As soon as this happens, the shell will start to form a mechanism which will serve as a defense to keep the irritant from invading it. The mechanism is like a liquid which consists of calcium carbonate. This liquid ill covers the small thing up to keep it from fully occupying the mollusk.

When this process is repeatedly done by the same mollusk, along the way a nacre or pearl will be made. The estimated time for this procedure could take up to more than three years. It could form into several shapes, and the most spherical one, which what most jewelry makers use, is considered the rarest.

The cultural pearl is formed when the shell response to a tissue being implanted to it. This tissue called the graft. The process starts when a graft from another shell if donated to a recipient shell. This then will cause a reaction. A sac will develop into which the graft precipitates an essential calcium, which will develop into a nacre.

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.

You could differentiate a fake from a real pearl through rubbing it against your teeth. If the color wears away then it is fake. Fakes are done in a short period but the real one is made for a long period of time.

The procedure on how these beautiful gems are made is most likely mysterious and special. Even if people try to make their own ways of making one, the original is really the thing. When you happen to have one like a jewel, just take a careful way of caring for it because it is not as easy as making one, it can take for years.




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