Rhinestone - crystalline quartz

Semi-precious stones, gems Mineral characteristic.

Rock crystal - clear, colorless quartz, occurring in the form of well-developed crystals, and in river sediments - a polished matte in nature pebbles. Crystal size may be up to several meters. Rock crystal is characterized by high transparency, after polishing becomes a good shine. This property is known since ancient times. In more recent times, we began to believe that cosmic energy is contained in rock crystal.

Quartz often occurs in the form of well-formed crystals of various colors and friends who are in their natural form without any further processing is a wonderful decoration. Pure quartz is colorless and transparent like water. Theophrastus called rock crystal "kristallosom" (from the Greek. "Ice"), which is so cold that he had lost the ability to melt. Since ancient times believed that these stones can influence the destiny. Quartz crystals, Druze, geodes, concretions amazing beauty. They were valued since ancient times. However, people have long sought to enhance the shine and beauty of the stone treatment. Currently, Crystal Quartz and its varieties are used in jewelry - for the manufacture of necklaces, brooches, rings, pendants, gifts, balloons and eggs made of rock crystal.

From rock crystal were made vessels, bowls and cups, and sanded and polished transparent stones used in various jewelry like decorations. The biggest ball of rock crystal is considered to be stored in the United States the ball from the Burmese quartz, carved in China, with a diameter of 33 cm and a weight of 48.5 kg.

It is colorless, transparent quartz (silica), without impurities and colorless with a distinctive crystalline structure, its properties as a talisman, talisman, an amulet and medical reference has little to none. Quartz is one of the most common elements on the planet. It often occurs in the form of friends (aggregates of crystals) and large single crystals. Often the stone is formed in a closed cavity on a substrate of chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz). Crystal quartz glass harder and scratch it. Single crystals are strictly 6 faces (like all quartz). On the side faces unpolished natural crystal rock crystal has a roughness - layers rise in planes perpendicular to the axis of the crystal, the growth takes place in a spiral. In quality crystal rhinestone not repulsed or damaged sharp tip of the crystal.

Look carefully at the pointy, like a pyramid, the head of crystal. Usually it faces are not equal: alternating large and small. Large and often heptagonal shiny, small - triangles with a dull luster. Not always the same faces and hexagonal prism. All of them are cross-hatching, but three faces (through one) groove under the head of rare and notable, and three intermediate thinner and frequent. Occasionally, however, are exactly alike, all six faces (this is a perfect crystal). In quartz crystals rarely have both ends. More often, one adheres to the tip of the parent rock. Therefore, quartz crystals resemble faceted pencils, sharpened at one end, or pointed obelisks. Crystal frequently does not grow alone, from all sides it is surrounded by neighbors. Grow together, they form the Druze (the brush).

Often rhinestone fills the cavity (geodes). The crystals are formed in the cavities of lava in "crystal cellars" quartz veins, in cavities and geodes in the limestones and shales. Transparency, like water and air, colorless crystals of rock crystal - samples of unsurpassed beauty. On a ten Mohs scale it has hardness of 7, which explains its resistance to chemical and physical treatment and belonging to the precious stones. There is a very fine crystals and brushes. The value of some of its crystals is amazing. Rhinestone, unlike ordinary glass transmits ultraviolet rays, which have antiseptic properties. Roman soldiers used a sphere and rock crystal lenses to focus the sun's rays to cauterize wounds.

Its crystals have pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties. If the crystal is subjected to heat or deformation (mechanical impact - compression or tension) then appear at the ends of the electrical charges of opposite sign. Conversely, if the rhinestone subjected to an electric field, it is deformed crystal. Quartz is used in instruments to measure the depth of the sea. Tremendous pressure at depths of deforming the crystal that is fixed by special devices, and their testimony is determined by the depth. The quartz watch the electrical current from the small battery creates certain vibrations in crystals. Vibration reads the chip that controls clock mechanism. Quartz sands have long been a valuable raw material for glass, including optical.

Painted crystal quartz has its own individual name: purple amethyst, golden citrine, black Morion, smoky rayhtopaz, green aventurine quartz. There are also rutile quartz (quartz-Nematomorpha). In nature, there are crystals of rock crystal, very similar to diamonds (with poorly developed prism faces and high gloss). Typical dimensions of the crystal rhinestone 2-4 cm in diameter.

The magical properties of stones.

As a talisman rock crystal, making human sverhvospriimchivym, multiplies its power. It helps develop and sensory abilities, facilitates telepathic contact, generally gives a person the ability to communicate at a distance with real objects. Some people may call through crystal rhinestone their animals:.. Dogs, horses, etc. The larger the crystal, the better, but it must be transparent and free of impurities. From rock crystal balls used to do for the diviners, that now has become fashionable. The ball just is the form that helps develop sensory abilities. The owner of the stone brings purity, clarity of understanding, the ability to communicate with people, to see the hidden, understand unsaid. Across Europe, find the ancient charms of the crystal. They were made as follows: small crystal balls recovering in metal, often silver, and connected so as to obtain a bracelet.

As an amulet crystal clears any space around the wearer from negative influences, why many home hold solid size drusen crystal or crystal brush. That sharp ends crystals are cleaners: from them flows into the space clean and light energy. This is true not only of rock crystal, but all the other crystals. If the crystal is difficult to obtain, you can use the form of drops or oval. Ball produces the same job, but the energy is distributed in a different way. In fact, Rhinestone is a great conductor of cosmic energy, and at the same time the stone has an unusual generosity. Crystal is often used in alchemy in the search for the philosopher's stone. Crystal glassware (this, of course, is not a natural rock crystal and artificial) has become established in the mass because the bowls of rock crystal (as well as of other valuable rocks and stones) - health donors. To some extent, artificial crystal possesses these qualities, but in an incomparably low. In the aristocratic circles of Rome it was distributed custom cool hand balls, made of rock crystal. To cool drinks and wines in containers also put balls or crystals.

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Toxic and hazardous radioactive rocks and minerals

** - Poisonous stones and minerals (obligatory check in chemical laboratory + clear indication of toxicity).

** - Radioactive rocks and minerals (obligatory check on a regular dosimeter + ban on the open sale of radioactivity in the event of more than 24 mR / hour + additional measures to protect the population).

All rare stones should always be checked on a regular dosimeter on the permissible level of radiation and a chemical laboratory in the absence of toxic and volatile components which are hazardous to humans and the environment.

  1. Adamini *
  2. Annaberg ** erythrite
  3. antimonite *
  4. Arsenolit **
  5. arsenopyrite **
  6. orpiment **
  7. Bayldonit *
  8. Beryl **
  9. betafite **
  10. Billietit **
  1. Bismutinit *
  2. antimonnickel *
  3. Viteri *
  4. gadolinium **
  5. Galit * *
  6. geocronite *
  7. glaucodot *
  8. Dekluazit Mottramit **
  9. Jordan *
  10. Carnot **
  1. vermilion **
  2. cobaltite *
  3. Kottunit *
  4. Lirokonit *
  5. marcasite *
  6. monazite *
  7. ammonia *
  8. Nichelino *
  9. Autun **
  10. pyromorphite *
  11. pyrochlore *
  1. proustite *
  2. rammelsbergite *
  3. realgar **
  4. Mercury *
  5. Senarmontit *
  6. Sulphur *
  7. skutterudite *
  8. Strontianite * *
  9. Antimony *
  10. tetrahedron *
  11. thorianite **
  1. Torit **
  2. uraninite **
  3. Farmacol *
  4. chalcocite *
  5. Hutchinson *
  6. Celestine * *
  7. Zircon **
  8. euxenite **
  9. enargite *
  10. aeschynite **
  11. conichalcite

Catalog of stones - all the stones in alphabetical order

  1. Aventurine *
  2. Agat ***
  3. azurite *
  4. Aquamarine *
  5. Alexandrite
  6. Diamond ***
  7. Almandine
  8. Amazonite *
  9. Amethyst **
  10. Ametrine
  11. Ammolite
  12. Ammonite
  13. Apatite
  14. Belemnite
  15. Beryl **
  16. mammoth tusk
  17. Turquoise
  18. Bulls-eye
  19. Verdelho
  20. Gagate (coal) * *
  21. Heliodorus **
  22. Heliotrope
  23. Hematite **
  24. Hessonite
  25. Howlite, Cowley
  26. Garnet
  27. grossular
  28. demantoid **
  1. chrome diopside Diopside
  2. Draveil
  3. petrified wood
  4. dumortierite
  5. Jade
  6. Pearl
  7. Emerald **
  8. Calcite *
  9. cacholong
  10. Quartz
  11. Quartz-hair-worm
  12. Quartz pink
  13. vermilion **
  14. conichalcite **
  15. Corals
  16. Corundum
  17. Cat's Eye Quartz
  18. Cat's eye chrysoberyl
  19. Flint * *
  20. Kuntz **
  21. Labrador **
  22. Lapis lazuli
  23. Moonstone
  24. Malachite
  1. Meteorite
  2. morganite **
  3. Morion **
  4. Jade **
  5. Obsidian **
  6. Onyx marble. **
  7. Onyx chalcedony
  8. Opal
  9. Orthoclase, microcline **
  10. pegmatite **
  11. Nacre
  12. Pyrite * *
  13. pyrope
  14. semi-opal
  15. Prase
  16. Rauhkvarts smoky quartz **
  17. Rhodonite
  18. Ruby
  19. rubellite
  20. Sapphire **
  21. Sardonyx
  22. Selenite
  23. Serafini
  24. Cornelian
  25. Serpentine (coil) **
  1. Simbirtsit **
  2. Sodalite
  3. Hawkeye
  4. staurolite **
  5. Tektite *
  6. Eye of the Tiger
  7. Tourmaline *
  8. Topaz
  9. Uvarovite
  10. Ulex * *
  11. fluorite
  12. Haliotis
  13. Chalcedony
  14. Peridot *
  15. Chrysoprase **
  16. crystal mountain
  17. Celestine * *
  18. Citrine
  19. Zircon **
  20. charoit **
  21. Schorl
  22. Spinel *
  23. Shungite * *
  24. eudialyte *
  25. euclase
  26. Epidote (Jasper)
  27. Amber
  28. Jasper