Hemimorphite Luster
Optical Properties of Hemimorphite 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. Hemimorphite optical properties like luster, clarity, refractive index etc. are used to determine the non-destructive methods during gemstone identification and evaluation.
Hemimorphite luster is the quantity of light the crystal reflects when light is incident on it. Hemimorphite which is commonly found in Green, Brown, Colorless, Greenish, gray, Yellow, White color, is Translucent and Transparent in nature. It possess Adamantine, Silky and Vitreous luster.