RE: Irradiated gemstones

["David Whitfill" <DWhitfil@kdhe.state.ks.us>]

You can do a net search under keyword "color centers." Below is a hit about
topaz irradiations:

http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~jill/Lect7.html#colorcenters

Another hit of note-

http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/FILES/Visible/BERYL/Index.htm






"Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu on
01/26/2000 01:13:50 PM

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>remember.  Topaz was the most successful of the irradiations.
I wonder what the mechanisms may be. Could it be trapped free radicals?

Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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