{"id":314,"date":"2015-08-17T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/?p=314"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:20:16","slug":"new-opal-treatment-against-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/new-opal-treatment-against-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Opal treatment against cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text8:0\">Historically, opal has been one of the few gemstones rarely subjected to any treatments. Sugar &amp; acid carbon deposition used to be the predominant treatment applied to only a very specific and scarce type which then resembled natural black opal. However, the discovery of several deposits of gem quality opal in Ethiopia has resulted in a dramatic revision of this rule of thumb.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text9:0\" \/><br data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text11:0\" \/><span data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text12:0\">The extraordinary hydrophane characteristic of the majority of the opals from Ethiopia has opened up the opportunity to introduce a wide range of new treatments including smoke, colored dyes and a variety of synthetic resins which are intended to stabilize the opals and prevent cracking.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text13:0\" \/><br data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text15:0\" \/><span data-reactid=\".1k.1:5:1:$comment662687307202117_663568490447332:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text16:0\">The conclusion will be the presence of evidence for and\/or against the rumor that almost all the Ethiopian opals currently available in the market are treated without proper disclosure<\/span> from the gemstone seller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, opal has been one of the few gemstones rarely subjected to any treatments. Sugar &amp; acid carbon deposition used to be the predominant treatment applied to only a very specific and scarce type which then resembled natural black opal.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/new-opal-treatment-against-cracks\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemstone-guide","tag-opal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buygems.org\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}