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Pearls

Pearls are small round beads. They are made by the oyster. The world's biggest pearl was found in 1934.

Pearls are small round beads, white and milky in color. About a centimeter in diameter. Women wear them in necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other accessories. Men buy these beads as accessories too, basically to give it to the girl he likes. (And the girl always likes it and says "thank you!" every time.) Pearls are considered very precious. They are usually sold in jewelry stores, and sometimes at an a open booth on sandy beaches that are near a deep sea. The pearls are made deep in the ocean by an oyster.

The pearls are made by the oyster – a kind of clam shell. The oysters lives deep in the ocean, on the sandy sea bed. When a grain of sand gets into the oyster's body, it rubs against the inner shell, and the iridescence and color rub off and onto the grain of sand. This makes the oyster very uncomfortable but it can not get rid of the grain of sand. And so, after a period of time, the grain of sand becomes a pearl. By saying this I am also saying that almost every clam and shell can make a pearl but some are different colors like orange or pink or something, and a lot of them won't have the iridescence of the normal pearl. Although scientists still call them pearls.

The largest pearl known was found somewhere in the Philippines in 1934. It grew naturally, within a giant clam. As it did not grow in a pearl oyster, it is not pearlescent; instead, the surface is glossy. Other pearls from giant clams do exist, but this is a particularly large one. The pearl weighs 14 lb or 6.4 kg and was supposedly first discovered by a diver in 1934. According to the legend as it is currently told, a Palawan chieftain gave the pearl to Wilbur Dowell Cobb in 1936 as a gift for having saved the life of his son. The pearl had been named the Pearl of Allah by the Muslim tribal chief, because it resembled a turbaned head. Another even more elaborate legend says that this object is actually the Pearl of Lao-Tzu, a cultured pearl created with a carved amulet and then supposedly progressively grafted into several giant clams, before supposedly being lost in a shipwreck in 1745. This legend has been said to be wrong however because this pearl is, as the scientists say, something made by a giant clam, rather than a pearl oyster.

Pearls are small round beads. They are usually white and milky in color. These are made into accessories for women to wear. Normal pearls are made by oysters. The biggest pearl ever found was made by a giant clam; it was found in 1934.