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The mesmerising beauty of an emerald is incomparable as it glimmers under celestial light. Despite the adoration for this mineral gift of nature, acquiring one can be intimidating. In an emerald, you’ll find a garden of inclusions, fractures, and fissures, an integral part of its character. But like any garden, emeralds also require care to enhance their natural allure.
Makeup helps us hide blemishes and achieve clear, smooth skin. We also utilise fillers such as hyaluronic acid, ceramides, botox, and more. Similarly, the gem industry uses fillers to improve the look of emeralds. Because of their close refractive index to emeralds, these fillers improve the clarity and lustre of the gemstone by reducing the visibility of fractures and fissures.
While there are a variety of substances used by the industry to enhance emeralds, cedarwood oil and epoxy resin remain the top choices. Although the term ‘oil’ may sound organic and natural, the type used for emerald treatments is scientific grade with high viscosity, unlike the one used for cooking or by the wellness industry. There are two types of cedarwood oil: natural, obtained through industrial methods, and synthetic, which is more affordable. Oil can pose a challenge, because depending on the nature of the surface reaching fissure, the oil may dry over time, necessitating re-oiling.
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A Plan For Your Lifestyle
Change your mindset to fit your shifting financial needs, rather than trying to fit your lifestyle into rigid rules to realise your financial dreams
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CONSCIENTIOUS ASSETS
Mixing social responsibility and investing is an ethical way of making investment choices and has takers among a niche in the investor community
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HIGH JUMPERS
They had never seen the inside of even a state legislature. Now they have catapulted to the national one
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FLOOR-CROSSERS
The turncoats who clinched electoral wins after jumping ship and pledging new loyalties
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BRIDGING THE GAP
Esther Duflo's Poor Economics for Kids is an illustrated children's version of the seminal economics text she co-wrote with Abhijit V. Banerjee
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FROM DESK TO DAIS
Sa far, familiar with implementing policy, these former bureaucrats will now have an inside view of the legislative process itself
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GODMEN, SHAMANS & CLERICS
From novice imams to suave dynasts to voodoo shamans to self-styled mahants, the whole gamut is on show in the House
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WHAT IS AN ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVE?
An instruction recording the medical care preferences an adult individual wishes to opt for if they become incapacitated, it guides the family and healthcare providers
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THE WRITE PLATFORM
Formerly members of the Fourth Estate, they will now occupy the seat of Indian democracy
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A HARVEST OF AMBITIONS
Sons of the soil come in various packages, union men to strongmen to Left veterans. What they have in common is a deep connect with the land