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Originally Posted by perlas I'm sure you wouldn't even dare gently drop a nice emerald.  |
Drop? maybe just a little... haven't smashed any yet just by handling, with the implicit little shocks. Unfortunately, the most exercise my jewelry gets (and me, most of the time
) is typing - would that make the equivalent of a bull ride for a ring ?
It is a bit frustrating this 'hardness' debate about traditional jewelry materials with milenia of road-testing behind them. Everyone seems to want a single-number measure of durability and then complain that the result is too complicated (hardness, toughness, cleavage, chemical and fade resistance etc. combined, I mean).
