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Old 07-06-2007, 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Valeria101
Haven't yet found any measure of what is 'too thin' to allow lustre naturally... in mm, for any type of pearl (= nacre structure) or quality. That's where the question in the previous post comes from. Since nacre is translucent... it should have different properties from different thickness. Anyone knows how this works exactly?
Maybe this link can help...at least I hope this is what you meant to ask:
http://www.perlas.com.mx/english/orient.html
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