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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Today, cultivated pearls account for the vast majority of those sold worldwide, while genuinely natural pearls remain a rare and highly prized exception.
- This controlled process dramatically increased the global supply of pearls, making them accessible to far more buyers than the natural trade ever could.
- Farmers using this method carefully implant a small bead or tissue fragment into each oyster before returning it to controlled underwater farms for several years.
- To overcome this scarcity, researchers in the early twentieth century developed techniques for deliberately inserting an irritant into cultivated oysters to trigger pearl formation.
- Natural pearls form only when an irritant accidentally lodges inside a wild oyster, making them exceptionally rare and historically very expensive to obtain.