Glossary Term
By Dr. Rashid Karimov Gemological Spectroscopy Editor
The emission of visible light by a material when stimulated by ultraviolet radiation. Diaspore is generally inert to long-wave UV and may show weak yellow-green fluorescence under short-wave UV in some specimens. Strong fluorescence is not a diagnostic feature for color-change diaspore identification.
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