How Rudraksha, gemstones, crystals and organic gems are tested and identified — written by the laboratory, for anyone who wants to understand what they own.
A gemstone or Rudraksha gift should come with the documents that let the recipient verify it. What to include and why to test before giving.
The ratti is not one fixed unit. How ratti converts to carat and gram, why the difference matters, and what a laboratory reports.
What sets gemstone prices — natural vs synthetic, treatment, colour, size, origin — and Rudraksha prices — mukhi, origin, size, condition.
Burmese ruby, Kashmir sapphire, Colombian emerald: how origin is inferred from inclusions and chemistry, and why it is always an opinion.
Which gemstones can be worn every day and which cannot, what everyday activities damage them, how to clean each kind, and when to have a setting checked.
Inclusions are the fingerprints inside a gem — the lab's main evidence for natural vs synthetic and for treatment. What the common ones look like.
A Gauri Shankar is two Rudraksha fused in growth. How natural fusion differs from a glued pair under magnification and on X-ray.
Synthetic ruby, sapphire, emerald and quartz are grown by flame fusion, flux or hydrothermal methods. What each process leaves inside the crystal.
Energised, siddha and activated are matters of tradition no laboratory can test. Why identification must come first and how to read such listings.
How emerald is confirmed as beryl, separated from green glass, dyed quartz and synthetic beryl, and examined for the filling nearly all emeralds carry.
Nearly every emerald has fissures filled with oil or resin. What the fillers are, how minor-to-significant is graded, and how a lab detects them.
Most brightly coloured agate is dyed. How agate takes dye, the colours that never occur naturally, and how a laboratory detects the treatment.
Invoice, lab report, photographs and appraisal each do a different job. What to keep, how to insure gemstones, and what insurers actually need.
Diffusion cooks colour into pale corundum. Why surface-diffused colour is skin deep, how immersion reveals it, and the beryllium diffusion problem.
How thermal and electrical testers, doubling, dispersion and weight separate diamond from moissanite and cubic zirconia in minutes.
How diamond is confirmed, separated from its simulants, screened for laboratory growth, and graded — and which treatments must be stated on a report.
Bead bracelets are the most substituted crystal purchase. How a lab tests a strung bracelet bead by bead, and the swaps found most often.
Dye is the commonest treatment in red coral. The drill-hole, magnification, UV, solvent and spectroscopic checks a laboratory uses to detect it.
The laboratory examines Rudraksha, gemstones, malas, bracelets and crystals and issues a numbered, PIN-protected report you can verify online at any time.