Process In Forming A Pearl

By Sandra Sullivan


It has been years since pearls were put into consideration as a treasure that has been extraordinarily formed inside a shell in the deepest part of the ocean. This was one of the earliest types of materials used for making jewels. Making one takes a very mysterious and long way right before it could be made as a Hawaiian Pearl Jewelry.

Conchiolin and Calcium Carbonate is what a pearl is made up. Most people considered that natural ones made through an accidental process. Because the starting point of this is done through a tiny parasite who wants to enter mollusk.

The starting point of the procedure is when an irritant, a small parasite, occupies a shell. As soon as this happens, the shell will start to form a mechanism which will serve as a defense to keep the irritant from invading it. The mechanism is like a liquid which consists of calcium carbonate. This liquid ill covers the small thing up to keep it from fully occupying the mollusk.

The more the process is repeated, then producing a pearl. The procedure of creation is said to take about three or more years. They can come in many shapes, making the perfectly round ones to be the rarest types, because it is what jewelry maker uses for their products.

A cultural type of pearl is created through a reaction between the implantation of a tissue, known as a graft, inside a shell. This requires two oysters, the one will donate the tissue and the other is the one that will receive it. As soon as the tissue is placed inside, a small sack made up of essential calcium is being developed. Once this gets bigger, a nacre will be formed.

This could be done in different methods, such as using shells found in either in fresh or sea water, personal implantation of the tissue to the shell or by putting an additional spherical bead to serve as the nucleus. Considering this process to a combination of human and natural circumstances.

Another way in making pearls is through imitating a real one. The steps are easy and can be done in no time. Al you have to do is to dip a round glass bead into a solution that contains scales from fish. This type differs in the weight since it is not made of calcium, and the color could be easily worn off.

With the creation of fake ones, people get counterfeited. Fakes do not have any same process in the other two since you could only make one in a minute. But to know whether the one you have is fake or not, you have to rub it against your teeth, when the color starts wearing off, then that is a hoax.

The procedure on how these beautiful gems are made is most likely mysterious and special. Even if people try to make their own ways of making one, the original is really the thing. When you happen to have one like a jewel, just take a careful way of caring for it because it is not as easy as making one, it can take for years.




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