No.4 December 2005
 
    What 's inside?

- Cover Page
- Forward
- Editor, Editional Review Board and abstract

   
  Contents        
 
The Beryllium-Treatment of Fancy Sapphires with a New Heat-Treatment Technique
Part A : Second Edition of Contribution to Gemology No.1, with corrections
(Originally published in May 2002, see Lit. 01)
 
 
Interduction

Materials
1

1-2
UV Fluorescence and UV Treatment 3
Color Fading Test (Unstable Color-Centers)
4

  UV-Treatment Protocal (Table 1) 5-6
Scanning Electron Microsoft Analysis (SEM) 7-8
SEM Photo-Album 9-10
SEM-EDS Analysis 10
Chemical Analysis of Natural Unheated Colored Sapphires (ED-XRF) 11
Origin of Color of Natural Unheated Colored Sapphires
Data Chemical Analysis ED-XRF (Table 5)
12
13-14
Origin of Color Analysis of Natural Colored Sapphires
and Beryllium-Treated Fancy Sapphires (UV-VIS-NIR)
15-19
LA-ICP-MS Methods
Sampling and Probing Details for LA-ICP-MS (Table 6)
20-21
23
LA-ICP-MS Results of Beryllium-Treated Natural
"Padparadscha" and Beryllium-Treated Natural Colorless Sapphires
24-25
LA-ICP-MS Profile of Beryllium-Treated Natural
"Padparadscha" Sapphires
24-28
LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Beryllium-Treated Natural
Blue Sapphires
29-32
LA-ICP-MS Profile Beryllium-Treated Natural Yellow Sapphires 33-34
LA-ICP-MS Profile Natural Purple Sapphires, Unheated (N)
Comparison Surface Diffusion-Treated and Beryllium- Treated Sapphires
35-38
The Beryllium-Treatment of Fancy Sapphires with a New Heat-Treatment Technique
Part B : Second Edition of Contribution to Gemology No.2, Page 21-33
(Originally published in August 2003, see Lit. 02)
Cathodoluminescence of Beryllium-Treated Natural "Padparadscha" Sapphires 39-40
Conclusion Part A

Blue Halo Inclusions in Beryllium-Treated Fancy Sapphires
41-42

42
Beryllium-Treatment Part B 43
Inclusions in Beryllium-Treated Corundum 44
Beryllium-Treatment of Synthetic Pink Sapphires 45-47
Beryllium-Treatment of Synthetic Rubies 48-50
Triangular Identification Charts for Beryllium-Treated Natural and Synthetic Corundum 51
Conclusion Part B
Origin of Color in Beryllium-Treated Natural and Synthetic Corundum
52
Part C : Inclusions  
  Explanation Inclusion Images 53-54
Inclusions in Unheated and Heat-Treated Colored Sapphires 55-56
Inclusions in Beryllium-Treated Pink and Yellow Sapphires 57-58
Inclusions in Beryllium-Treated Blue Sapphires 59-60
  Tables of LA-ICP-MS Analyses of Beryllium-Treated
Synthetic Corundum
61-62
  Tables of LA-ICP-MS Analyses of Beryllium-Treated and
Conventional Heated Natural Corundum
63
Literature References 64-65