Garnet Luster
Optical Properties of Garnet are its behavioral responses towards light. While few optical properties can be identified with naked eyes, other require special instruments by the gemologists to identify them. Garnet optical properties like luster, clarity, refractive index etc. are used to determine the non-destructive methods during gemstone identification and evaluation.
Garnet luster is the quantity of light the crystal reflects when light is incident on it. Garnet which is commonly found in Yellow, Green, Red, Pale pink, Violet-red, Brown, White, Colorless, Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, pink color, is Transparent and Transparent to translucent in nature. It possess Adamantine, Adamantine, Vitreous and Vitreous luster.