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Trying to ID: Citrine or Topaz?

avalon04

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Hey there everybody! Hope we're all doing okay.
A few years ago back to the homeland (Viet Nam) my family and I visited this Hong Ngoc Fine Arts center that had disabled workers selling various arts and crafts and we purchased this pendant, that was marketed to us at topaz in 14k white gold...
But then I compared it to a citrine pendant I had and realized that they look exactly the same! Can someone help me figure out the identity of the pendant? Thank you!
In the picture I have attached the 'topaz' one is on the left and the citrine one is on the right. The only thing I can discern with my eye is that the 'topaz' one is of indeed higher quality with overall more pigmentation and less cloudiness. IMG_4379.JPG
 
You have two transparent gems of roughly the same color. Can't say much more than that. Not just citrine vs. topaz. Also sapphire, diamond, chrysoberyl...
 
Their hardness and RIs are different. But you need an equipment to test the RI
 
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