When our ancestors first ate oysters, they must have found loads of pearls but they had no value so they probably flicked them into the sea and ate the oyster. My new business idea is to search for all those discarded pearls near oyster beds but would they dissolve over time?
2006-09-29 09:01:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
No they wouldn't dissolve, they start with a grain of sand in the oyster, which the oyster then coats over, building up over years, need to be an illegal business as most oyster/mussel beds are protected by law.
2006-09-29 09:04:48 · answer #1 · answered by questor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are made from a grain of sand, that slowly over time grows into a pearl. Never heard of a pearl dissolving. You can also grow your own pearls
2006-09-29 16:10:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pearls are made by various different oysters, it is actually waste not from their bodies from from they bring into their shells from the ocean as it is formed through great agiation and irration they move the waste sand etc in to one area of the shell and form it into a balls and with the agitation they have trying to compact it it almost polishes it. we call them pearls.
2006-09-29 16:08:34 · answer #3 · answered by Mary S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks. As a response to an irritating parasite inside its shell, the mollusk will deposit layers of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of the minerals aragonite or calcite (both crystalline forms of calcium carbonate) held together by an organic horn-like compound called conchiolin. This combination of calcium carbonate and conchiolin is called nacre, or as most know it, mother-of-pearl.
2006-09-29 16:07:04 · answer #4 · answered by movie_crit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They happen to raise oysters for pearls now.
2006-09-29 16:08:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mucous secreted around a grain of sand,the mucous is secreted to stop irritation.
2006-09-29 16:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since pearls are made of organic material, it would stand to reason that they would break down over time.
2006-09-29 16:04:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calcium Carbonate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl
I love the wiki!
2006-09-29 16:04:34 · answer #8 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe they are made from sand from the ocean...
2006-09-29 16:03:37 · answer #9 · answered by Clints_wench 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's a peral?
2006-09-29 16:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Ralley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋