Ruby or Garnet…place your guess in the comments! 💎 I’m a Gemmologist and I’ve been sent this ring to identify. I’ve already looked at it with my eye, with my loupe and used the refractometer but I thought I’d take the opportunity to show you the polariscope! The polariscope identifies whether a gemstone is singly or doubly refractive. As singly refractive gemstone will remain dark, when rotated 360°, whereas a doubly refractive gemstone will go from light to dark when rotated 360° in most cases

Garnets come in a beautiful spectrum of colours, including colour changing garnets!! As you can see all these gems look quite similar in shape. This is because of their internal crystal structure. As Gemmologists our job is to identify gemstones in their rough form as well as when they are cut. There are 7 Crystal systems that most minerals will fall into. Garnet is in the Cubic System. It has a ‘round’ appearance and all the faces are very similar in shape, these are great identifying features.

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