Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Gemology
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Tagging and categorising articles
[edit]Main page categories
[edit]The Gemology and Jewelry category structure is:
- Clear crystals
- Translucent crystals
- Colored stones
- Man-made gems
- Physical characteristics of gems
- Metaphysical characteristics of gems
- Pranic and Vedic meanings
- Modern metaphysics
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[edit]Articles related to Gemology and Jewelry should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry}}
For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Gemology and Jewelry.
Categorizing
[edit]- Articles related specifically to Jewelry should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|jewelry=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to Gemstones should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|gemstones=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to Gemology should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|gemology=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to the business aspects of gems and jewelry, should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|business=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to people involved in gemology or jewelry, should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|people=yes}}
Rating Articles
[edit]When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
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Class
[edit]The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Gemology and Jewelry pages)
Importance
[edit]The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA
Resources
[edit]- Many of the article headings listed below, were drawn from WinJewel dictionary online and Jewelry Glossary - Definition of Jewelry Terms
- For gemstone misnomers
- Gemology Dictionary
- World of gemstones
Article List
[edit]Main Article - Gemology
Grading, identification, and valuation
[edit]- Gemological grading
- Gemological identification *** Is there a mineralogical equivalent page? If so could it be used in place of this redlink?
- Gemological appraisal
- Gemological grading laboratories
Educational Institutions
[edit]- Gemological Institute of America
- International School of Gemology
- Hoge Raad voor de Diamant, Antwerp The Diamond High Council, Belgium (HRD Antwerp)
- Deutsche Gemmologische Gesellschaft German Gemmological Association(DGemG)
Gemological Chemicals
[edit]- Usage in gemology needs to be verified and source for article needs to be found.
Gemological terminology
[edit]- Atomic weight
- Axis of symmetry
- Birefringence
- Carat weight
- Carat
- Chatoyancy - dab - Chatoyant, Cat's eye, Cat's eyes, Hawk's eye, and Tiger's eye
- Chemical composition
- Cleavage
- Cleaving
- Conchoidal
- Crystal axes
- Crystal faces
- Crystal lattice
- Crystal systems
- Crystal
- Crystalline material
- Crystallography
- Cube
- Cubic system
- Density
- Dimetric system
- Double refraction
- Dwt
- Etch figures
- Faces Crystal
- False cleavage
- First cape
- First water
- Flaws
- Fluorescence
- Flux fusion
- Form-birefringence
- Fracture
- Fraunhofer lines
- Habit
- Half-facets
- Heat treatment
- Hexagonal system
- Holohedral forms
- Homogeneous
- Hydrophane
- Hydrostatic weighing
- Hydrothermal method
- Idiochromatic
- Inclusion
- Inclusions
- Index of refraction
- Interfacial angle
- Interference figures
- Interference of light
- Internal strain
- Interpenetrant twins
- Isomorphous replacement
- Karat
- Karet
- Knot
- Metric carat
- Mineral species
- Mineralogy
- Minimum deviation
- Mohs Scale
- Mohs' scale
- Molecular weight
- Molecule
- Monoclinic system
- Optic
- Phosphorescence
- Refraction
- Refractive index
- Relative density
- Rhombic dodecahedron
- Rhombic
- Rhombohedral
- Rhombohedron
- Semi-transparent
- Specific gravity
- Tetragonal
- Tetrahedron
- Thermo-luminescence
- Thomsonite
- Translucent
- Transparency
- Transparent
- Triboluminescence
- Triclinic
- Trigonal
- Trimetric system
- Troy weight
- Twin crystals
- Ultra-violet light
- Unit cell
- Units of weights
- Velocity of light
- Wave-length
- Widmanstatten lines
Instruments
[edit]- Colorimeter
- Coloriscope
- Colour filters
- Diamond colorimeter
- Diamond gauge
- Diamond saw
- Diamondlite
- Diamondscope
- Dichroic Glass
- Dichroscope
- Diffusion column
- Endoscope
- Gauge
- Gemolite
- Hydrometer
- Leveridge gauge
- Loupe
- Lucidoscope
- Mercury lamp
- Microscope
- Monochromatic light
- Polariscope
- Reflectometer
- Refractometer
- Scaife
- Specific gravity bottle
- Spectrograph
- Spectrometer
- Spectroscope
Unsorted
[edit]- Oriental - Common misnomer prefix. Article regarding trade terminology and the practice of making a common stone more saleable.
- Ornamental stones
- Igneous rocks
- Geodes
- Dyed stones
- Adamantine
- Precious Gemstone
- Precious stones
- Semi-precious stones
- Acicular
- Allochromatic minerals
- Alluvial
- Amorphous
- Amphibole
- Amygdule
- Anhedral
- Aniline
- Autoclave
- Aventurescence
- Axes
- Becke line test
- Benzyl benzoate
- Beryloscope
- Biaxial
- Boron carbide
- Botryoidal
- Brecciated
- Brewster's angle
- Brilliant
- Brittleness
- Bromoform
- Brom-toluene
- Bubbles
- Byon
- Calorescence
- Cape stones
- Cascalho
- Cassia oil
- Castor oil
- Cedar wood oil
- Certified Gemologist
- Chelsea colour filter
- Cinnamon oil
- Circular polarisation
- Clerici's solution
- Clove oil
- Cohesion
- Collimator
- Colloid
- Cryptocrystalline
- Cubo octahedron
- Cuttable
- Dark cape
- Deviation
- Diamond dust
- Diamond point
- Diamond powder
- Diaphaneity
- Diasterism
- Dichroism
- Differential selective absorption of light
- Diffraction of light
- Diffraction
- Diffusion melt
- Diffusion
- Dimethylaniline
- Dispersion
- Dodecahedron
- Domed
- Dull
- Dullam
- Durability
- Dust diamond
- Electro-magnetic
- Electroned diamonds
- Epiasterism
- Ether
- Ethylene dibromide
- Extinction
- Extraordinary ray
- Feathers
- Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Australia
- Fellow of the Gemmological Association
- Fire
- First bye
- Flame-fusion process
- Flats
- Four-point
- Frictional electricity
- Fusibility
- Gel
- Gem-cut
- Gemmology
- Gemolux
- Gem-stick
- Geology
- Ghost crystals
- Girdle
- Glycerine
- Goniometer
- Graduate Gemologist
- Grain
- Gramme
- Greasy
- Grit
- Hardness
- Heavy liquids
- Hemihedral forms
- Hemimorphic
- Illam
- Indicators
- Infra-red
- Inorganic
- Iodobenzene
- Iodo-naphthalene
- Iridescence
- Iridescent
- Isotropic
- Jolly's spring balance
- Kaolin
- Kite
- Kites
- Labradorescence
- Lamellar structure
- Lauegram
- Light
- Luminescence
- Luster
- Magma
- Magnetic spectrum
- Massive
- Matrix - dab - Mother rock
- Medium
- Melange
- Melee
- Metallic
- Metamorphic rocks
- Micron
- Moe's gauge
- Mossy stones
- Natural
- Negative crystal
- Negative reading
- Nicol prism
- Octahedron
- Olive oil
- Opalescence
- Opaque
- Ordinary ray
- Organic Gem
- Orthorhombic System
- Oxides
- Painted stones
- Parti-coloration
- Parting
- Pennyweight
- Periclase
- Petroleum
- Petrology
- Phantom Crystals
- Piezo-electricity
- Pinacoidal face
- Planes of symmetry
- Pleochroism
- Point
- Pseudomorph
- Pyro-electricity
- Reduction
- Reflection of light
- Resinous
- Sawing
- Schiller
- Shatter marks
- Sheen
- Shipley colorimeter
- Silk
- Silky
- Skiagram
- Spectra plural
- Speed of light
- Spherulites
- Striae
- Synthetic
- Templet - facet name
- The refractive indices and specific gravity of Cha
- Three-point
- Tin-cut
- Toluene
- Total reflection
- Total reflectometers
- Turpentine
- Ultra-violet lamps
- Uniaxial
- Valency
- Vaseline
- Vitreous
- Walker balance
- Waxy
- Westphal balance
- West's solution
- White light
- X-rays
- Xylene