Email us at goldberg@pinfire.de
Impregnated Synthetic Opals with a Play-of-Color in Red or Green and in Different Body Colors
Synthetic Opals - Black Opal, White Opal, Crystal Opal & Fire Opal
Coarse and Fine Crystalline Opals with a Non-Directional Play-of-Color
Synthetic Opal Online Shop: Synthetic Opal & Lab Created Opal
Synthetic Opals with a brilliant Play-of-Color
Black Opal, White Opal, Crystal Opal & Fire Opal. Literature.
Literature about synthetic opals and opal imitations.
Gemmological Publications.35 years On - A New Look at Synthetic Opal, Australian Gemmologist (2003), 21, 11, pp. 438-447.
Some Aspects of Opal Synthesis, Australian Gemmologist (2002), 21, 7, 278-282.
An investigation of the synthetic products of Gilson showing a play of colours, Journal of Gemmology (1984), 19, 1, pp. 27–42.
Untersuchung der neuen Opal-Imitation von Gilson, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft (1983), 32, 2/3, pp. 119-125.
Investigations of Synthetic Opals.
Eine Untersuchung der opalisierenden Syntheseprodukte von Gilson, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft (1983), 32, 2/3, pp. 107-118.
Japanische Opalimitationen aus Plastik, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft (1983), 32, 1, pp. 59-68.
Microstructure and mechanical properties of synthetic opal: A chemically bonded ceramic, Journal of Materials Research (1986), 1, 5, pp. 667-674.
Observations on the Slocum Stone, Gems & Gemology (1977), 15 , 9, pp. 252-256.
Synthetic Opals - Publications.
Kristallisation übermolekularer Bausteine, Naturwissenschaften, 50 (14), 485-494.
Structural modification of synthetic opals during thermal treatment, Physics of the Solid State, 48, 7, 1280-1283.
Gilson Created Fire Opal Imitation with Play of Colours, Journal of Gemmology Vol. 19, No.1, p43.
Opal Imitations.
A Re-examination of Slocum Stone - with particular emphasis on inclusions, Journal of Gemmology Vol.19, No.7, p586.
Opalite Triplets - new imitations of opal, Journal of Gemmology, Vol. 23, No.8, 473-480.
New Synthetic Opal Made of Plastics, Australian Gemmologist, Vol. 14, pp. 213-218.
Imitation Opal, Australian Gemmologist, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 156-158
Sources.
Gems & Gemology - Quarterly journal of the Gemological Institute of America
The Australian Gemmologist - Journal of The Gemmological Association of Australia
The Journal of Gemmology - Journal of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain
GEMMOLOGIE - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft
InColor Magazine - Journal of The International Colored Gemstone Association