Read information about agate used in rings and jewelry.
Information about agate decorative stone
Opal or agate is a semi precious agate stone and one of the minerals that consists of several chemical elements. Agate is a siliceous stone and a type of mountain door.
Agate is white to dark gray and black, yellow to red, green and light blue, and it is a famous stone among second grade jewelry.
Agate mineralogy
Agate is a type of quartz that has a hardness of 7 according to the Mohs hardness table. Among minerals, diamond with a hardness of 10 has the highest degree of hardness and is considered the most resistant mineral, and graphite (pencil lead) has a hardness equal to.
It can be said that original agate has a suitable hardness with a 3 degree difference compared to diamond. This difficulty is one of the ways of pricing agate and distinguishing the original from its substitute.
For example, if you have an artificial agate ring and massage it with a rough woolen cloth, it will get scratched, but the surface of the original agate will become more shiny. Stay with us to get to know the healing and transcendental properties of agate.
The word agate is derived from the name of a river called Agate in the peninsula of Sicily. Agate rubble was probably obtained from the bed of this river in the old days.
Agate is semi transparent or opaque, and is made of chalcedony layers, each of which is decorated in different colors or even the same color.
or alternating layers of opal are seen among them. The opals that were extracted from German mines in the past have red, pink and brown colors and sometimes gray bands are seen between these layers. These mines are not usable today.
According to the type of shape and structure of agate layers, different words have been given to agate in business and science.
This stone is formed by an accumulation of quartzes that have been formed with a specific regional delicacy, and is from the chalcedony group.
(crystallized semi transparent silicas that were widely used in jewelry making in ancient times), which are usually blue in color. , gray, brown, beige and pink and can be found in Brazil, Germany, Mexico and the United States of America.
Opal or agate is a semi-precious stone and one of the minerals that consists of several chemical elements. Agate is a siliceous stone and a type of mountain door.
Agate is white to dark gray and black, yellow to red, green and light blue, and it is a famous stone among second grade jewelry.
opal stone
Properties of opal stone
How to form opal stone
In a certain Persian culture, it is stated: Agate is created as a result of water flows in siliceous rocks or silicate rocks, or as a result of the rise of acid gases from the earth.
and it is formed in other rocks. Especially among the surface igneous rocks that have a sumac structure.
The best opals
There are different types of agate, most of us are familiar with its reddish brown or finally black types, but we should know that agate is considered one of the most diverse ornamental stones.
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