{"id":372916,"date":"2019-09-25T18:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/?post_type=glossary&p=372916"},"modified":"2019-09-25T18:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:24:55","slug":"demantoid","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/glossary\/demantoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Demantoid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A sub-variety of andradite and the moat valuable of the garnets, the colour ranges from dark green (hence sometimes miscalled “Uralian emerald”) to yellowish-green (hence sometimes miscalled “olivine”). It is the most expensive and rare of garnet gemstones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has many similarities with the diamond (“demant”), hence its name (meaning ‘diamond-like’), but it has low hardness, so that it is not suitable for hard wear as jewellery. The stones have inclusions of fine asbestos fibers (byssolite) that are sometimes called ponytails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sub-variety of andradite and the moat valuable of the garnets, the colour ranges from dark green (hence sometimes miscalled “Uralian emerald”) to yellowish-green (hence sometimes miscalled “olivine”). It is the most expensive and rare of garnet gemstones. It has many similarities with the diamond (“demant”), hence its name (meaning ‘diamond-like’), but it has low […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":{"1":"glossary"},"acf":[],"related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/372916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/372916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=372916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}