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.

A natural pearl is technically comprised of about 100% of conchiolin and calcium carbonate. People thought that the formation is of this type is through an accidental procedure. Because of a microscopic parasitic animal invades the mollusk where this beautiful gem will be formed.

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.

When this process is repeatedly done by the same mollusk, along the way a nacre or pearl will be made. The estimated time for this procedure could take up to more than three years. It could form into several shapes, and the most spherical one, which what most jewelry makers use, is considered the rarest.

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.

There have been many methods used in producing a cultured one. It could either be using shells from freshwater or seawater, transplanting the tissue into the shell, or adding a round bead as a nucleus. Unlike the natural type, this is made both by human and also natural occurrences.

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.

Imitation pearl, on the other hand, is formed differently from the other two. This is not done through a long process. Most likely referred to as the fake type of bead. But, you can easily determine if one is fake when you rub it across your teeth, if it glides, then it truly is a fake one.

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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