Talk:Minor Gem Characters/@comment-27019043-20160114004554/@comment-28584561-20160117224534

There are three common types of pearls. There are natural pearls, cultured pearls, and artificial (fake) pearls.


 * Artificial pearls are predominantly perfectly round but isn't made out of the same type pf material natural pearls are made of and does not come from a mollusk.


 * Cultured pearls are made by placing a nucleus (starting material), usually a round bead, inside a mollusk. The mollusk would just coat the ball with nacre in time and form a round pearl, but usually forms baroque pearls.


 * Natural pearls are rarely round as the nucleus that starts pearl formation could be of any shape.

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