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The color enhancement of natural Zambian amethyst by the hydrothermal treatment method

  • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
  • Abbr : J. Korean Cryst. Growth Cryst. Technol.
  • 2004, 14(2), pp.73~77
  • Publisher : The Korea Association Of Crystal Growth, Inc.
  • Research Area : Engineering > Materials Science and Engineering

Chun-Won Park 1,  Pan-chae Kim 1

1동신대학교

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ABSTRACT

The color enhancement for natural Zambian amethyst of low quality was carried out by the hydrothermaltreatment method. The hydrothermal treatment conditions were as folows: reaction temperature; 300oC, duration; 30 hrs,filing; 40 %, solvent; 6 M-HCl solution. The redish purple amethyst of high quality was obtained under these conditions.From the result of ICP/AES, it was known that color enhancement was affected by a Fe elemental content to exist in theinside of natural Zambian amethyst. Also, from the result of UV-VIS-NIR, it was shown that the absorption peak at50 nm after hydrothermal treatment is slightly lower than those of non-treated natural Zambian amethyst. In this study, itwas known that hydrothermal treatment method was a way to suitable for increase of commercial value of natural Zambianamethyst.

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