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Post by effervescent on Nov 9, 2022 18:50:19 GMT
Love to write a post that is contained within its title!
But genuinely, I feel like this is a thing you just end up knowing from experience? Shops will list "opalite" (or even just "opal" but it's the same translucent blue material) under their 'stone plugs', but it's glass. Goldstone, too, and I've seen at least one glass fluorite that *did* cop to being imitation but has left me second-guessing all other fluorite plugs.
Are there any other plugs that are commonly imitation but not always listed that way? ("Turquoise" often being dyed howlite, again, I feel is another one that you just know because someone's told you at some point - I think I learned that one from the old BAF forum!)
(Quick edit for tone: I'm not in the pursuit of Only Organic Stone Plugs, just accurately knowing what materials are potentially going in my ears, and that it's fun to share those things "everyone knows" that are actually fairly inside baseball).
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Post by lishd on Nov 9, 2022 19:44:20 GMT
Cat's eye. There are plenty of natural stones that have a cat's eye effect, but the stuff sold as cat's eye stone is usually synthetic and made from fiber optic glass threads.
Interesting topic; thanks for posting.
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