How do gemstones get their color?
5/28/202645 min
#158 Rebroadcast
Gemstones come in all sorts of colors, but how do they get them? Are different stones super different at the molecular level? How do these different colors happen naturally? And how can those colors be replicated in lab-made gemstones? Let's get into it.
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Melissa Collini· Host1:14
Hey, y'all. For this month's re-release, I thought, in preparation for next week's episode, we could do a little look-see back at gemstones- Mm ... and how gemstones get their color.