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adularescence: a standalone construct

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adularescence1 CONSTRUCTAdularescenceMOONSTONE · SHEEN

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Gemology

a soft, bluish-white light that seems to float beneath moonstone's surface, caused by light scattering in feldspar layers.

Adularescence is the soft, billowy, bluish-white light that seems to float just beneath the surface of moonstone and roll across the stone as it is tilted. Nassau's The physics and chemistry of color and Read's Gemmology trace it to the scattering of light by a fine, regular intergrowth of two feldspars in alternating lamellae thin enough to scatter the shorter, bluer wavelengths. The construct is a scattering sheen named after adularia, a variety of the feldspar, distinct from the interference sheen of labradorite or the diffraction play of opal.[1][2]

Unit
The colour, depth, and mobility of the floating sheen
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Judged by the colour and apparent depth of the sheen and its movement as the stone is tilted, tied to the fineness of the feldspar lamellae

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References

  1. Nassau, K. (2001). The physics and chemistry of color: The fifteen causes of color (2nd ed.). Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 9780471391067
  2. Read, P. G. (2005). Gemmology (3rd ed.). Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 9780750664493

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