A cultured pearl is one that is produced through an artificial process that imitates the natural organic process that creates a natural pearl. 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.

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