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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:45 pm 
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find the 11 mm round checkerboard pink topaz - do any of you know who treats them? Perhaps the original stone can be restored.


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Were you looking for a surface enhancement, or something more akin to irradiation?


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I thought pink topaz was only done with a coating - can pink be caused by irradiation or is it just blue and green topaz?


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Oops, sorry.. Remembered my facts wrong; I was thinking of the brazil material that is heated, not irradiated. As for a surface coating though, Azotic has a number of pink enhancements that could in all likelihood match the one that was removed from the pickling solution.


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