A doublet (also dublette) is a gem made from two layers in order to save expenses; the lower part of the composite stone is glass or a non-precious stone, the top is the more valuable stone Many different types of doublets have been manufactured (including opal doublets) One common doublet contains a layer of real garnet and a layer of glass A thin, red garnet top is glued to a colored glass bottom A green glass bottom with a red garnet top layer produces an emerald-like stone A diamond is enlarged by cementing it to a crystal base
quilted garment, stuffed with cotton or waste material, stitched and worn under a hauberk
A form of gemstone trickery that was devised to allow inexpensive materials to imitate the more valuable gemstones before modern synthetics were available A doublet can take several forms but always involves a fake gemstone produced by gluing together two different materials to form an illusion A very common one in Victorian times was the garnet and glass doublet This involved a red garnet top, glued to a colored glass bottom The refractive properties of a faceted stone are such that the red of the garnet only shows at odd angles, or if the stone is immersed in a special liquid with a high refractive index Thus, for example, a green glass bottom with a garnet top will give the appearance of a fine emerald because the top is a natural gemstone with cut facets, and a few natural imperfections, and the bottom is bright green which reflects throughout the stone The effect is hard to appreciate unless you've seen one
one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes
A doublet was a short, tight jacket that was worn by men in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. a man's tight jacket, worn in Europe from about 1400 to the middle 1600s
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct
The electronic state of a molecule having one unpaired spin is termed a doublet (see °radical) This term is derived from spectroscopy: an unpaired spin can be either up or down with respect to a magnetic field, and these states have different energy, resulting in field-dependent pairs, or doublets, of spectral lines (See °triplet, °singlet )
A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem