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Color change of Zambian amethyst by heat treatment  

Jun, Mi-Lee (Department of Materials & Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University)
Seo, Jin-Gyo (Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Young-Chool (Hanmi Gemological Institute, Laboratory)
Park, Jong-Wan (Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea / v.22, no.2, 2009 , pp. 97-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is known that the natural amethyst is changed to citrine after heat treatment. However, when all amethyst samples from Zambia were heat-treated in the temperature range of $350{\sim}380^{\circ}C$ for 1 hour, the result was that five out of eight samples were changed to citrine and all the rest of samples became rock crystal quartz. These differences in the color appearance seem to be influenced by the original colors contained in the amethyst before the heat treatment. The amethyst containing yellow color changed to citrine and the amethyst without containing yellow color changed to rock crystal quartz after the heat treatment. The results compared after the instrumental analysis on the difference of color change, it showed the differences of peak intensity in 3,400 $cm^{-1}$ and the existence and non-existence of peak at the range of 5,200${\sim}$5,400 $cm^{-1}$ in FTIR. It revealed the difference in the quantity of Cr which is a trace element in the WD-XRF analysis. The identical result in the FTIR spectra before and after the heat treatment reveals that the heat treatment did not cause any change in the main composing elements or crystal structure.
Keywords
Zambian amethyst; citrine; heat treatment; color change; cause of color;
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