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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 244274, member: 2844"]I think you've got it, 'quench-crackled' ruby with 'induced fingerprints'. Certainly looks like it. But you've got my vote anyway, just for introducing a term I could say all day. 'Quench-crackled', wonderful! </p><p>Why anyone would want to quench-crackle a perfectly good (synthetic) stone is beyond me, but I suppose it is like micro-sanded, sand blasted etc. jeans, which I never understood the need for either. It is just detrimental to the health of young textile workers in poor countries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 244274, member: 2844"]I think you've got it, 'quench-crackled' ruby with 'induced fingerprints'. Certainly looks like it. But you've got my vote anyway, just for introducing a term I could say all day. 'Quench-crackled', wonderful! Why anyone would want to quench-crackle a perfectly good (synthetic) stone is beyond me, but I suppose it is like micro-sanded, sand blasted etc. jeans, which I never understood the need for either. It is just detrimental to the health of young textile workers in poor countries.[/QUOTE]
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