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Citrine and Petoskey Stone Optical Properties


Petoskey Stone and Citrine Optical Properties


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Citrine and Petoskey Stone Optic Character

Citrine and Petoskey Stone optical properties play a significant role while distinguishing these gemstones from each other. These properties are influenced by the Citrine and Petoskey Stone Physical Properties like crystallographic symmetry, pleochroism,etc. in the crystal. Some of the optical properties are refractive index, luster, optic character, pleochroism etc. Prominent among these is Citrine and Petoskey Stone optic character. You might have noticed your gemologist rotating the gemstone while testing it. Rotating a gemstone along its optic axis helps in determining its optic character.

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Citrine and Petoskey Stone Transparency

Similar to their colors, Citrine and Petoskey Stone transparency can also be used as criteria for their primary identification. Although transparency cannot be the only criteria for gemstone identification, it can efficiently used in gemstone grading. Talking about their transparency, Citrine is Transparent while Citrine is Transparent in appearance.

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