Weird Yb:YAG Garnet Facet Rough, Experiment Gone Wrong Type:Brown, 7.7g typically by soaking in a

typically by soaking in a sugar solution and then exposing it to sulfuric acid which carbonizes the sugar

The color shifts from pink to orange and often looks golden on camera for some reason

Normally you'd cut windows out of a big round boule grown by HEM or Kyropoulos but the shape really isn't conducive to larger flat shapes

I don't even know why they were experimenting with this unusual crystal--it has a higher density

It's overall a super cool synthetic very rarely seen in the gem world

Weird Yb:YAG Garnet Facet Rough, Experiment Gone Wrong Type:Brown, 7.7g typically by soaking in aThis is facet rough of weird mutated Yb: YAG. We tried to have it grown, it usually comes out a vivid blue green, but this one went wrong in the process. It has a combination of browns, yellows, greens, and occasional blue, giving more of a pondwater set of colors instead of the typical deep aqua blue you get from Yb: YAG. Since this was done by accident we don't know if we'll have more, but the colors are neat!