Gem Nomenclature

A wide range of precious stones, name quite complex, due to historical reasons, geographical differences, a long name in disarray, in the business activities are often deceived consumers are not infrequent.
To sum up, people are generally named after gemstones in the following circumstances: a wide range of precious stones, name quite complex, due to historical reasons, geographical differences, a long name in disarray, in the business activities are often deceived consumers are not infrequent.

To sum up, people are generally named after precious stones in the following circumstances:

Xi along with the historical name: mostly ancient traditional name, often associated with a number of ancient legends.
Such as jade, amber, agate, pearl, coral and so on.

Name to Origin: The origin directly named, so that products with local characteristics, easy to sell, over time, the evolution of these specific origin
Into a gem variety of names.
To serpentine jade, for example, produced in Liaoning Xiuyan serpentine jade is called Xiuyan; produced in Guangdong Xinyi is referred to as the South-yu, or the letter should Yu; produced in Guangxi is also known as Lu Chuan Lu Chuan-yu, etc. .

Direct named color gems: such as rubies, sapphires, aquamarine, green crystal, topaz and so on. As the level of awareness of the limitations, the early and accurate identification of people do not like precious stones, can only be named an intuitive sense of precious stones, causing the same name that contains multiple varieties of confusion.
If, under the name Ruby contains a red spinel, purpurin teeth Ukraine, Red Tourmaline, Red Topaz, and even a red glass, and many other varieties.

Naming a special optical effects: such as using cat's eye, Star effect directly named, the question arose starlight gems, cat's eye stone, Venus gem stones and other inaccurate name.
However, under the name the same as the Cat's Eye Chrysoberyl and the aquamarine prices vary widely, so that this name is very unreasonable.

Use of mineral and rock names directly named: for example, spinel, beryl, garnet, tourmaline, cordierite, spodumene and so on.
This is the gem industry is generally used as a naming method, especially some newly discovered species named after gemstones. Advantage is accuracy.

Other than the Hebrew transliteration of the name: If emerald, opal, topaz and so on.
With the above-mentioned naming a similar nature, is also widely used by the naming.

With manufacturers, production methods, the direct naming pattern gems: such as Chatham emerald, emeralds, etc. Linde; and water calorimetry Ruby, Ruby, etc. flux method.
As manufacturers, methods continue to increase, so the name too much, and easy to confusion for consumers.
Among them, for the use of minerals, rocks name to respect history along the learning, adaptation to international exchange, foreign language transliteration and other methods should be promoted, the other should be gradually abandoned.

At the same time, for the market, the growing number of artificial gemstones or precious stones to improve its name must be standardized. Common rules are:
Synthetic and artificial gemstones naming: in the corresponding gem should precede the "synthetic", "artificial" and so forth.
Such as synthetic ruby, synthetic emerald, synthetic opal, synthetic yttrium aluminum garnet, synthetic strontium titanate, and so on.
Flatten stones naming: naming must highlight the "split stone" It's three words, while the material before the name of stone mosaic write it down.
Such as natural ruby crown put together to make up who should be named "ruby, synthetic ruby stone mosaic."
Regeneration (made) gem stones or suppress the naming: In the name of the composition of natural jade jewelry preceded by "renewable (made)" word.
Such as "regeneration Turquoise", "renewable Coral" and "Renewable amber" and so on.
Imitation stones are named: imitation gemstones in the naming of the imitation of natural stones in the name of the former, plus a "fake" word can be.
Such as the common to use glass as raw material imitation rubies, to plastic as the material in order to man-made imitation pearls and cubic zirconia imitation diamonds, etc. for the material.
Optimized jade jewelry, jade jewelry direct use when naming the original name, but the optimum method is not reflected in the naming.
If, after heat treatment of rubies and sapphires, rubies and sapphires directly named.
After treatment, jade jewelry jade jewelry is called the basic bracketed after the name of "treatment" of the word.
Er Shi, upon the proliferation of dealing with the color blue of the sapphire, known as the sapphire (processing).