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Beryl
The Word "brilliance" is possibly derived from the ancient greek word for beryl, "berullos", which means crystal.

 


Beryl
Beryls are the most popular gemstones that are available in beautiful colors. These types of gemstones have high brilliance and are hexagonal in shape. The hardness of this stone is 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs scale.

Beryl Facts and Buying Guide - JewelInfo4u
By:Shweta Dhanuka
Summary: Beryl, the name is derived from the Greek word "beryllos" that refers to a number of blue-green stones in antiquity.

Beryl
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Belyl stone is a beryllium-aluminium-silicates. In the pure form, beryl is colorless, but the stored foreign substances gives it different colors.

Beryl
Chemical composition -- Beryllium aluminum silicate. Relative amounts of additional metals give rise to the different color varieties.
The beryl family provides many well known gems.

Beryl Facts, Information and Description
The gemstone Beryl is the Star Sign for Scorpio and the Talismanic Stone for Sagittarius. See the ancient birthstone tables for additional references to this and other ancient birthstones.

Beryls
The magic of colours
Colour appeals to our feelings directly. It makes us happy and cheerful, livens us up or calms us down, and has a magical or liberating effect.

BERYL
(EMERALD, AQUAMARINE, HELIODOR, MORGANITE, GOSHENITE)
The mineral beryl (pronounced barrel) is a principle store of beryllium in the earth's crust.

Beryl is a mineral family with a wide variety of colors, ranging from blue to red. The colors are produced by minor traces of elements in the - beryllium silicate - crystal lattice and when these are absent, the mineral will be colorless.

Beryls are generally quite hardy unless they are strongly includedRed beryls tend to be more like emerald in this respect and may be fragile if the gem has many surface reaching fissures.

Beryllium diffusion of ruby and sapphire by John L. Emmett, Kenneth Scarratt, Shane F. McClure, Thomas Moses, Troy R. Douthit, Richard Hughes, Steven Novak, James E. Shigley, Wuyi Wang, Owen Bordelon and Robert E.

The rarest beryl is bixbite (red) and is not usually seen in jewelry as it occurs in only very small crystals. The red color is due to manganese, and the best material comes from Utah.

Beryl
Sign of Beryl - Scorpio, Sagittarius
In all cases, beryl should be set in a silver necklace, or set in silver and worn on the left ring finger.

Beryl stones are popular gems, mainly on account of their magnificent colors. As noted, the more common gemstone forms of the mineral beryl are emerald and aquamarine. Pure beryl is actually completely colorless.

Red Beryl
Discovered in the late 1970's and still found in gem quality at only one site in the world, the Wah-Wah Mountains of Utah, red beryl, or Bixbite, is one of the world's rarest and most desirable gemstones.

Chrysoberyl used in Jewelry
Source: Brazil, India, Myanmar, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, USA (Colorado) ...

Beryl is usually found in pegmatitic regions of granite and silica-poor mica schists or in the alluvial debris of such eroded areas.

Beryls of the aquamarine type occur in many places, but usually of too pale a tint, or too imperfect, to be worthy of cutting.

Beryl is famous for its perfect, hexagonal prismatic crystals that occur individually or in clusters. These range in size from the microscopic to enormous giants of 25 feet or more.

Chrysoberyl
Valued for thousands of years, chrysoberyl is a surprising gem that you'll love as much for what it does as for how it looks. Chrysoberyl is an action gem, changing and moving in response to light.

Chrysoberyl
Gemology
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Due to the pastel color of chrysoberyl, special attention should be given to the cut and overall proportions of the stone.

Compounds & Effects - Beryllium
Chronic ulcers may result from skin contact. Berylliosis, a severe pneumonia-like disease, is caused by exposure to small amounts and can be fatal. Inhalation may cause bronchogenic cancer.

North and South America, Northern Europe, East Africa, South Africa, Himalayan Asia, and most notably, Colombia. The beryl family of gemstones is composed of emerald, aquamarine, morganite, heliodor, goshenite, and the rare bixbite (red beryl).

Beryl
Beryl occurs in a variety of colors including green, yellow, greenish-yellow, blue to blue-green, red, colorless and pink. The name is from ancient Greek, beryllos, and means precious blue-green color.

Beryllium Treatment A form of heat treatment for sapphire that adds the element beryllium to the heating process.

Beryl: The name of a family of stones, composed of a silicate of aluminum and glucinum (beryllium), that includes aquamarine, emerald, and morganite.
Beryllium: Another name for Glucinum.

Beryl
A mineral. If medium to dark green, it is an emerald. If light blue, it is an aquamarine.
Bezel
A technique of stone setting using a thin piece of metal to create a “cup' which is hammered over the stone (as opposed to prong set).

Beryl: A lightly colored mineral which when transparent and dark green is called emerald, and when blue in color, aquamarine.
Cabochon: A domed gemstone. Highly polished curved surface without faceting.

Beryl: A mineral species that includes the gem varieties emerald, aquamarine and morganite.

Beryl
Stone of Power. Beryl helps with eye diseases as well as heart and stomach problems.

Beryl
The name beryl comes from ancient Greek word 'beryllos' which means precious blue-green color. This stone is available in a variety of colors including green, yellow, greenish-yellow, blue to blue-green, red, colorless and pink.

Beryl: A species of gemstone of which emerald, aquamarine, morganite (light pink) and heliodor (light yellow or golden) are varieties.

Beryllium
Another name for Glucinum.
Betrothal Ring
A tradition dating back to as early as ancient Rome where it was called an anulus pronubus, ...

beryl
A mineral that comes in several colours including green, blue and red. Emerald, aquamarine and morganite are all forms of beryl. Beryl has a hardness ranging from 7 to 8 on the Mohs Scale ...

Beryl
Aluminum beryllium silicate. A group of minerals that includes both Emeralds and Aquamarine.
Betrothal Ring ...

Beryllium copper
Heat treatable copper-beryllium alloy of high strength and hardness. Used for making springs and non-sparking tools.
Beta brass ...

Red Beryl
Red beryl is a is a rare, deep red variety of beryl. Gemstone-quality forms of this mineral are found in only one place in the world, in the Wah Wah Mountains, near Beaver, Utah, USA.

CRYSOBERYL CAT'S EYE
Crysoberyl and alexandrite actually belong to the same gemological family. Known in antiquity as oculus solis, "eye of the sun", this gem's sharply reflected ray of light produces the spectacular effect of an iris of a cat.

Chrysoberyl
Chrysoberyl is a relatively rare mineral that varies in color from gray, green, yellow, or brown and is used as a gemstone.
Cigar Band
Cigar Band is a type of ring that is looks like a wide strip of ribbon.

Chrysoberyl
A semi-precious stone of transparent golden yellow, green yellow or brown
Citrine
A variety of quartz found in a range of colors from light yellow to red-orange to almost brown ...

CHRYSOBERYL
Chrysoberyl is a hard stone that ranges in color from yellow, to brown, to green. Some chrysoberyls include alexandrite and cat's eye.
CHRYSOLITE ...

Chrysoberyl: (also called "cat's eye") A rare, hard, yellow-green mineral consisting of alumina and glucina, (beryllium aluminate), in crystal form. It is popular as a gemstone for its chatoyant qualities.

Chrysoberyl
Harder than all other gemstones save diamond and corundum, chrysoberyl is strongly pleochroic, meaning different colors-such as red, orange-yellow, and green-appear depending on which angle you view the gem from.

Golden Beryl - The colors of yellow beryl range from pale lemon to rich gold. Beryl with lush golden hues is sometimes referred to as heliodor.
Golden Finish - Jewelry with no actual gold content but finished with a gold look.

beryl (n) a mineral which includes the gemstones emerald (green beryl) and aquamarine (blue beryl).

Beryl is a family of gemstones that includes: green beryl, aquamarine, emerald, heliodor (pink), morganite (yellow), and red.

Beryl
A group of various colored gemstones (aquamarine, golden beryl, emerald, heliodor, morganite)
Hardness : 7.5 Refractive Index : 1.57-1.59 Density : 2.99 ...

Beryl
Beryl is a family of colored gemstones that includes emerald (intense green), aquamarine (blue green to blue), bixbite (red), goshenite (colorless), heliodor (yellow, gold) and morganite (pink).

Beryl Prospect
Further west along the trail, the next prospect encountered is on a small knoll to the right, location P1.

Beryls are a family of gemstone that include emerald, aquamarine, beryl (green), red, morganite (yellow), and heliodor (pink). Beryl has a hardness of 7 - 8, a specific gravity of 2.6 - 2.9, and the chemical formula Be3Al2SiO6.

Beryl
Aquamarine
Beryl, Apache Tear, Aquamarine, Coral, Obsidian, and Topaz ...

Beryl
Laziness; hiccups; swollen glands; eye diseases; bowel cancer.
Bloodstone ...

Beryl - The mineral composition of emerald, aquamarine, morganite, goshenite.

BERYL
Cairngorm Mountains, Aberdeenshire.
1cm part-gemmy crystals.
SMOKY QUARTZ ...

Beryllium-aluminium-silicate or Beryl is widely used as a gem material. In its pure form (also known as Goshenite), beryl is colourless. However, stored foreign substances give it different colours and different names.

Beryl is a silicate mineral group with several varieties of gemstones, including well-known gems like emerald, aquamarine, and morganite, as well as more exotic gems like bixbite, heliodor, and goshenite.

Beryl is a family of colorful gemstones that include emerald (green), aquamarine (blue), Bixbite (red), morganite (pink), heliodor (yellow), Riesling (pale green with warm golden yellow flash), and goshenite (colorless). Hardness=7 - 8, S.G.=2.6-2.

Beryl: A hard mineral that comes in a variety of colors. Gemstones included in this family are; emeralds and aquamarine.
Beveled: A type of surface cut that is at an angle less than 90 degrees.

Chrysoberyl - Tancredo Mine, Espirito, Santos
Uranocircite - Malacacheta, Minas Gerais, Former collection Ed Boucher
Brazilianite - Minas Gerais
Emerald ...

Chrysoberyl
This yellowish-green mineral is exceptionally hard, tough and durable. As the third hardest frequently encountered natural gemstone, it is ideal for everyday wear.

See also: Stone, Color, Gemstone, Jewel, Emerald