Articles: Emeralds
"Gota de Aceite" Emerald
Care and Handling of Emeralds
Emerald Lore
Emerald Treatments
Emeralds and Advanced Testing with Raman and FTIR
Emeralds from Australia
Emeralds from Austria
Emeralds from Brazil
Emeralds from China
Emeralds from Colombia
Emeralds from East India
Emeralds from Egypt
Emeralds from Iran
Emeralds from Madagascar
Emeralds from Mexico
Some of the finest and rarest Colombian emeralds possess an ethereal optical quality called gota de aceite("drop of oil"). In recent years however, this term has suffered from so much overuse that it is losing its original meaning.
Care and Handling of Emeralds
Emerald Lore
Emerald Treatments
Emeralds and Advanced Testing with Raman and FTIR
FTIR
FTIR stands for Fourier Transformation Infra-Red, and it is a spectrophotometer in infrared region that can obtain absorption spectra with frequency analysis called Fourier Transformation on a waveform, which is obtained from a sample by illuminating it with a composite waveform that is made from light from a light source through an interferometer. By obtaining molecular vibration in a substance, FTIR can effectively analyse water, hydroxyl and resin or oil in crystals.
Microscopic Raman Spectroscopy
When a light is hit a substance and scattered, some of the scattered light may change its wavelength by a certain amount that is unique to each substance. This phenomenon is named Raman Effect after the discoverer. Raman spectroscopy is a technique to identify a substance or to analyse molecular structure by using the phenomenon. The scattering light obtained by Raman Effect is generally very weak so that a strong laser beam is used for irradiation and a sophisticated detector is required.
FTIR stands for Fourier Transformation Infra-Red, and it is a spectrophotometer in infrared region that can obtain absorption spectra with frequency analysis called Fourier Transformation on a waveform, which is obtained from a sample by illuminating it with a composite waveform that is made from light from a light source through an interferometer. By obtaining molecular vibration in a substance, FTIR can effectively analyse water, hydroxyl and resin or oil in crystals.
Microscopic Raman Spectroscopy
When a light is hit a substance and scattered, some of the scattered light may change its wavelength by a certain amount that is unique to each substance. This phenomenon is named Raman Effect after the discoverer. Raman spectroscopy is a technique to identify a substance or to analyse molecular structure by using the phenomenon. The scattering light obtained by Raman Effect is generally very weak so that a strong laser beam is used for irradiation and a sophisticated detector is required.
Emeralds from Australia
Emeralds from Austria
Emeralds from Brazil
Emeralds from China
Emeralds from Colombia
Emeralds from East India
Emeralds from Egypt
Emeralds from Iran
Emeralds from Madagascar
Emeralds from Mexico


