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Glass Bead Crystal Austria

Glass Bead Crystal Austria

This product group contains all the crystal cut glass beads from Korutarvike.com that are of the high quality Imitation Austrian Crystal brand. Imitation Austrian Crystal is a high quality Austrian Swarowski imitation without the lead found in Swarowski. A more environmentally friendly alternative to Swarowski's lead glass is nowadays crystal glass, which uses barium oxide, zinc oxide or potassium oxide instead of lead oxide. This process gives the glass a very high refractive index instead of lead, so that when light hits the surface of a moving bead, it creates a powerful sparkle.

In these crystal-cut through-dyed beads, a 1mm x 1mm, or very small hexagonal sharp-edged facet cut circulates around the surface of the bead, giving the bead its super-bright sparkle and shine. At Korutarvike.com we refer to this bead as the Crystal Chopped Austrian.


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