Product Description: An updated and revised second edition of the acclaimed classic Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue, or a ruby red? This classic volume studies the physical and chemical origins of color by exploring fifteen separate causes of color and their varied and often subtle occurrences in biology, geology, mineralogy, the atmosphere, technology, and the visual arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The aim of this book is to assemble a series of chapters, written by experts in their fields, covering the basics of color - and then some more. In this way, readers are supplied with almost anything they want to know about color outside their own area of expertise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Outlines the fifteen ways in which electron interactions result in color and includes experiments and activities, which reinforce a general discussion of the properties of light, the electromagnetic spectrum, and color vision

Product Description: This is the second edition of Nassau's important work on the methods of modifying and enhancing gemstones and of treatments available to enhance the colour and appearance of gemstones. This includes various types of irradiation and heat treatment, colourless impregnations, bleaching, dyeing, diffusion and other processes...read more

Product Description: 1984 Butterworth Publisher. First Edition. Clean and unmarked, edges slightly age tanned. Dust jacket clean and bright, glossy surface scratched, edge ware. Proceeds benefit Oro Valley Public Library.