@gemsofscience: Fresh from the cutters: lab-created grey laser garnet! These stones are very limited in quantity and honestly I wasn't sure about even selling these since I know they'll be hard to replace. But in the end I can't keep them all, though I did keep some! Nd YAG lasers are used for almost everything. Rust removal? Eye Surgery? Dentistry? Skin treatments? Powering lasers with OTHER LASERS? For Nd it's NBD! Normally Nd YAG is pink to peach in color, but a small percentage of the pieces we get have a small zone at the very top with a grey, blue-grey or purple-grey color. Usually they are full of cracks or bubbles, so only a small subset of these small zones can produce nice gems. When cut they look an awful lot like the increasingly popular gray spinels! #gems #lasergem #grey #gray #greygarnet #graygarnet #ndyag #yaglaser #syntheticgems #loosegems #pink #yag #garnet #laser #Science #colorchange #yellow #loosestone #blue #purple #muave #colorshift #mahenge #lasers #crystal #lasercrystals #pinkgarnet #shift
