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Dead Sea Pearls into Retail Markets
(Sodom, Israel) In a surprising move expected to revolutionize the fine gems market, Pearls of the Dead Sea (PODS) has announced a massive campaign to bring the rare and elusive Dead Sea Pearl into retail markets via the Internet.
Dead Sea Pearl Reef
Unknown until very recently and still considered extremely rare, Dead Sea pearls are non-nacreous round bio-chemo-quasi-organic-crystalline gemstones. Their basic component is an uncommon crystalline form of calcium carbonate know as gomorrite (sometimes called sodomite) with traces of brome and magnesium. The gems are perfectly round with a flat, matt smooth surface.
A unique property of Dead Sea pearls, related to its thin gomorrite layers, is the ability to absorb all light refractions and reflections except for pure white light. J. Roeh, founder and president of Pearls of the Dead Sea, said at the announcement: ?We consider the matt surface of our pearls so important that we have coined a new term to describe it ?dis-orient.? All our Dead Sea Pearls are disoriented.?
Roeh declined comment on whether his company will market the black Dead Sea pearl, which absorbs all colors of light, so that it cannot be seen at all.
While Pearls of the Dead Sea have not made public any details of its farming procedures, N. Lerner, GIA Graduate and Israel?s leading pearl expert, believes that PODS may be growing them in the thought-to-be extinct zombie conch (Strombus vivere-mortuus).
White Dead Sea Pearls (Black Dead Sea Pearls can?t be photographed because they absorb all the light from the camera and don't give any back)
[BS News, reporting on the lowest point on Earth from the lowest point on the Internet]
(Sodom, Israel) In a surprising move expected to revolutionize the fine gems market, Pearls of the Dead Sea (PODS) has announced a massive campaign to bring the rare and elusive Dead Sea Pearl into retail markets via the Internet.
Dead Sea Pearl Reef
Unknown until very recently and still considered extremely rare, Dead Sea pearls are non-nacreous round bio-chemo-quasi-organic-crystalline gemstones. Their basic component is an uncommon crystalline form of calcium carbonate know as gomorrite (sometimes called sodomite) with traces of brome and magnesium. The gems are perfectly round with a flat, matt smooth surface.
A unique property of Dead Sea pearls, related to its thin gomorrite layers, is the ability to absorb all light refractions and reflections except for pure white light. J. Roeh, founder and president of Pearls of the Dead Sea, said at the announcement: ?We consider the matt surface of our pearls so important that we have coined a new term to describe it ?dis-orient.? All our Dead Sea Pearls are disoriented.?
Roeh declined comment on whether his company will market the black Dead Sea pearl, which absorbs all colors of light, so that it cannot be seen at all.
While Pearls of the Dead Sea have not made public any details of its farming procedures, N. Lerner, GIA Graduate and Israel?s leading pearl expert, believes that PODS may be growing them in the thought-to-be extinct zombie conch (Strombus vivere-mortuus).
White Dead Sea Pearls (Black Dead Sea Pearls can?t be photographed because they absorb all the light from the camera and don't give any back)
[BS News, reporting on the lowest point on Earth from the lowest point on the Internet]
