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Watch this Video and Learn About Pearls...Just how Do They Get Started?The mystery about pearls is that no man can create them in laboratory...always a mollusk is needed, either an sea oyster or freshwater mussel.
Natural pearls occur in one oyster or mussel out of a thousand..that's quite a pile of mollusks to go through before finding a treasure. Just how does this pearl get started? One thing not mentioned in this video about pearls is that as the irritant enters the mollusk, in order for it to be the cause of a new pearl, it must pick up some of the mollusk's mantle tissue on the way in. It's the mantle tissue that forms a pearl sac over the irritant and begans secreting the calcium carbonate base called nacre. Man has not been able to duplicate the way light passing through the layers of nacre reflect and refract off one another. Thomas Edison once said to Mikimoto that the two things he couldn't make in his laboratory were diamonds and pearls. Well...diamonds can now be created synthetically...but still not pearls. I'm sure someone is working on it however. So...do you think you could start taking irritants in your life and turn them into beautiful pearls? What a challenge! And the humble, lowly mollusk's lead the way in this miraculous process.
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