Cultured pearl is a gemstone described as produced through an artificial process that mimics the organic process by which a natural pearl is created.
An irritant such as a bead, grain of sand, or piece of mantle tissue is inserted by human intervention into the body of a mollusk, and becomes the nucleus of a pearl once that mollusk secretes nacre to cover the irritation.
Ref: 123980/2006-10-18
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