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What Is the Padparadscha Glow? Understanding Its Color

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What Is the Padparadscha Glow? Understanding Its Color

Padparadscha is a narrow band of pinkish orange to orangey pink, light to medium in tone and soft in saturation, judged in daylight. Here is where that glow starts and stops, why labs disagree on it, and the fading and diffusion tests that show whether it is real and permanent.

First Look at New Ceylon Sapphires

New stones and guides, straight from the source. Written rarely, and only when there is something worth saying.

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