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Portable Handheld Polariscope with Desktop Led Light

polariscope

 

The polariscope is use to test cut or rough gemstones. Allows two polarising filters to observe the structure and optical properties of precious stones or minerals. It can also be used in identifying Moissanite and detecting strain in diamonds. Equally important and just a little more expensive. It can be used with a thing called a strainless sphere, (that is a glass sphere with no strain lines in it,) or a loupe. It visually shows if a stone is doubly or singularly refractive and its optic sign. It will also show strain and twinning, which will occasionally help to distinguish between natural and man made materials.

 

Features:

  • HEAVY DUTY and precise because it made with metal and optical glass
  • Durable, reliable and made by professional craftsmen
  • Gemmologist tool for diagnosing optical properties of a gemstone (singly refractive or double refractive)during usage


Specifications:

  • Size: Length : 80mm
  • Diameter : 28mm
  • Material: Optics glass, Metal
  • Gemmologist tool for diagnosis optical properties of your gemstone(singly refractive or double refractive)
  • DESKTOP HANDFREE LED LIGHT SOURCE(Not a simply flashlight)


Pocket Polariscope Instructions
1FlashlightPut the flashlight into the opening under the polariscope and tighten the screw to hold the flashlight secure.
2AssembleInsert this removable lense into the polariscope with narrow end down. Turn on flashlight.
3Place StoneGently place stone on removable lense. Some people prefer to use tweezers to hold the stone between the two filters. We find this requires 3 hands, and simply rest the stone on the removable lense.
4Rotating LenseLook through the upper lense of the polariscope. Rotate removable lense exactly 1 full rotation. Count the number of times the stone blinks (or goes from light to dark.) That count is the refractivity of the gemstone.

 

Determining Refraction
While looking through the top lense, and rotating the stone if the stone:
-stays dark throughout a 360° rotation= isotropic (single refractive).
-blinks 4 times,2 light and 2 dark during a 360° rotation = anisotropic (double refractive).
-stays light throughout a 360° rotation =microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline aggregate

-twinkles instead of blinks = anomalous double refraction (ADR) and is really isotropic

ADR is when a stone looks like it might be blinking, but really is just showing lighter where the stone is thinner or where there is a veil or weakness in the stone. Garnet and diamond sometimes display this phenomena.

 

Isotropic 

Opal 
Amber 
Glass 
Plastic 
Diamond
Spinel 
Garnet

Anisotropic

Zircon 
Quartz 
Beryl 
Apatite 
Corundum 
Tourmaline 
Topaz
Zoisite (Tanzanite) 
Peridot 
Orthoclase 
Spodumene 
Labradorite 
Axenite 
Mossenite (Syn. Diamond)

Desktop LED light for Polariscope / Darkfield Loupe etc

 






Warranty: 2 years warranty

We also have Conoscope available for use with polariscope, please click the link below
Conoscope Interference Sphere Ball for Polariscope gem


Payments are accepted through Paypal.

We ship through USPS Priority Mail from Oregon, west part of the country should receive in 1-3 days,middle part and east part of the country should receive in 2-4 days! International: We charge the same shipping cost to all our customers worldwide(same shipping cost worldwide). Our default shipping is United State Postal Service First Class mail, it take 5-10 business days for delivery. we also offer faster shipping EMS which take 3-6 days. Handing time: 1 business day. For payment received before 14:00PDT, it will ship in the same day. We do Combined Shipment on any multiple purchases. We are pleased to grant a20% discount on the shipping cost of purchases more than item. Please feel free to contact us for discounted shipping costs when you buy multiple items from us.


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