How to identify precious gemstone.
Identifying gemstone can tricky if you dont have knowledge abouy them. Becuase Identifying a certain stone you must study first the world of gemologest and geologest.
Ok lets assume that you already studied them, keep this in mind that precious are diamonds, ruby, sapphire, and emerald. And the other in the list are semi precious stone.
Absurb the stone with your naked eye becuase color is the most abvious to start identifying menirals. After if it is green it is emerald and all ruby are red by defination.
Then try to test the gem with light to know if the gem is Opaque or tranlucent.
BOUNDS THE STONE in your hands to feel how heavy the spicemin is or more accurate result do some spicific gravity. Next use a loope then pass the light acros the gem and abserve same color changes or peek some obtical phenomina, and laster.
Refractometer is device to measure the the refractivr index of a certain gemstone. And this is one of the best way to identify gemstone.
