{"id":7575,"date":"2016-12-01T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/\/mineralogy-for-the-blind"},"modified":"2016-12-01T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:00:52","slug":"mineralogy-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"saviez-vous","link":"https:\/\/thefrenchjewelrypost.com\/en\/saviez-vous\/mineralogy-for-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Mineralogy for the blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><em>&#8220;Color is a false friend, it doesn\u2019t help to recognize a stone,\u201d<\/em> explains Didier Nectoux, <em>\u201cquartz may, for example, be purple, yellow or black.\u201d<\/em> Based on this observation, the director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musee.mines-paristech.fr\/Home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mus\u00e9e de Min\u00e9ralogie at ParisTech<\/a>, who sites his own color blindness, offers introductory sessions to gemstones for the blind where they can scratch gypsum and quartz or listen to the sound of a drop of acid on calcite. 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