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Originally Posted by gabrielamaria I did not understand the matter about nucleated and size. Can you explain to me this ? |
Please show those pearls on you! I've tried to figure out what beads so large would look like
They sound so bold!
As for size & nucleation... Hm....
I think it goes like this:
- the more nacre a mollusk has to produce, the longer it takes to make a pearl and for the humans harvesting the pearls... time is money! of curse, there is more nacre in a pearl w/o nucleus, so they take longer culture time.
There are other reasons why nucleated pearls make more
economic sense. And I am afraid that this will make cultured pearls w/o a nucleus disappear one day... I would rather that didn't happen, but
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