Demantoid Garnet Ring.By Aamir Mannan. DEMANTOID GARNET

The most valuable and most attractive of the garnets, the green garnet demantoid, is the variety of the calcium-iron garnet andradite. Here again we have an iron spectrum(iron) with enough chromium to enrich the colour and show chromium lines in the red. The iron band is an strongly intense one, centered at 4430 A. This is far enough into the blue-violet to be difficult to see as anything more than a sharp cut-off to the