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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2010, 02:46:08 PM »
I thought neodynum was alexandrite - lilac and blue.
There's one which is blues and greens and the red and green one, I didn't think they were all called alexandrit(e).
I'd have thought it would be different metals which produced different colour combinations.....

(and I do know we all percieve colour differently :thup: - nobody can ever have another person's experience for a start; women percieve more colours than men do; and two people can see the same patch of colour and still call it something different)
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2010, 02:55:47 PM »
i didn`t know that there is a blue and green as well :ooh:
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2010, 03:13:58 PM »
I've only ever seen it in vintage costume jewellery, masquerading as a precious stone, never as a large piece of glass.
(and the price was horrendous - £55 for a little brooch with 3 gem sized bits of green/blue glass! It wasn't rhinestone, that's different colours added to clear glass)
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2010, 08:36:20 PM »
Neodymium glass is Alexandrite , you are correct Sue :thup:....just different names for the same thing.
 
Also Neodymium glass only has one colour change..pinkypurple to blue. 
It is neon light and the new energy saving bulbs that give the blue colour, whilst daylight and the normal incandescent light bulbs give the pinkypurple colour.

The intensity of the colour change and depth of colour depends on the quantity of the precious earth metal neodymium added to the molten glass, and of course, the thickness of the glass itself.

It is different rare earth metals that give the other colour changes....John is currently checking the specific ones so I can pretend I knew all along!! They are not called Neodymium Glass nor Alexandrite.......back with more info when I have found out for you! :hi:
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #24 on: October 15, 2010, 09:59:57 AM »
Perhaps I'd like neodynum if the folk making it were not so mean with the metal - and allowed nice deep shades of purple - not the common "little-old-lady lilac-rinse".  >:D
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #25 on: October 15, 2010, 10:07:13 AM »
thats what i call deep purple  :sm:
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #26 on: October 15, 2010, 12:20:41 PM »
Wow!  They are glorious Thomas :sun:, the deepest purple I have seen.......and a matching pair of each....lucky you......I want them and I don't even collect vases and glasses...yet!!
Sue, does this satisfy your 'socks' thingy?? :24:
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #27 on: October 15, 2010, 12:22:20 PM »
 :or: :or: :or:
pleased you like ´em
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #28 on: October 15, 2010, 12:59:13 PM »
hmmmmm.....  could do with a touch of orange and fuschia-pink rather than fuschia flowers to bring it out nicely.  :sm:

(not a pair, though - the patterns are the same, not mirror images - I've just got to be a smart-ar*s about something. :-[ )
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Re: Glass Birds. I think I should specalise..
« Reply #29 on: October 21, 2010, 08:42:00 PM »
 :hi: Since there was a grumble, I've split off the sock wibble and banished it to the Cafe.

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