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Carroll F. Chatham was a San Francisco chemist whose study of gemstone synthesys...

A type of setting often used in mounting a number a small stones of uniform size in a row, usually ...

Ceylon is a gem-rich island off the southern tip of Sri Lanka that produces a beautiful, deep blue sapphire, though still paler than the famous Kashmir sapphire.    

A gemologist is a title granted by a gemological institute such as the American Gem Society (AGS) or the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)