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A blossary on different jewels, gems and gemstones.

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Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. This opaque, green banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

Moonstone is a sodium potassium aluminium silicate. Its name is derived from a visual effect, or sheen, caused by light diffraction within a microstructure consisting of a regular succession of ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica; its water content may range from 3% to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6% and 10%. Because of its amorphous character it is classed as a mineraloid, ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one color, an olive green. The intensity and tint of the green, however, depends on how much iron is contained in the crystal structure, so the ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). The red color is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium. Its name comes from ruber, ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

Sapphire (Greek: σάπφειρος; sappheiros, 'blue stone') is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide (α-Al2O3). Trace amounts of other elements such as iron, titanium, ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

Sunstone is a plagioclase feldspar, which when viewed from certain directions exhibits a brilliant spangled appearance; this has led to its use as a gemstone. It has been found in Southern Norway, ...

Domain: Jewelry; Category: Gemstones

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