Chrome Diopside
A beautiful gem with an ugly name
Chrome diopside certainly won't win any contests for the most beautiful name. To most people, it sounds more like a car polish than a gemstone. But don't be misled by that! ...
Enhancements
Chrome diopside is not enhanced.
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The chemical formula of chrome diopside is ((Ca,Na,Mg,Fe,Cr)2(Si,Al)2O6). The characteristics of crystals of diopside vary between transparency and translucency. There are uneven and rough fractures on the stone with streaks of white on it.
Chrome Diopside
I was prompted to write these comments on chrome diopside after seeing a television shopping network's recent promotion of this gem as "Russian diopside" and their featuring it extensively in rings.
Chrome diopside
Chrome diopside has a beautiful rich green color, similar to that of fine emeralds or the rarest tsavorite garnets.
Chrome Diopside - This variety is used as gemstone. It is referred as Diopside instead of Chrome Diopside among the people dealing in gemstones.
CHROME DIOPSIDE
Chrome diopside is an emerald-green colored gemstone. It is a chromium-rich variety of the common mineral diopside (Calcium magnesium silicate). Chrome diopside has a hardness of 5 to 6 and a specific gravity of 3.3 to 3.6.
Chrome diopside has a Mohs hardness of 5.5, similar to opal or tanzanite, so it should be protected in rings that will receive a lot of wear.
(Chrome diopside photo by ICA/Bart Curren)
Fluorite
Fluorite comes in some magnificent colors: violet, bright green, blue, yellow, orange, and pink. But as a faceted gem fluorite is too fragile to be wearable.
Green Chrome Diopside Earrings
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A crystallized silicate of lime and magnesia , gem quality diopside is relatively soft and brittle and most often bottle-green in colour, although it is also found colorless, brown, black, ...
Green chrome diopside Inclusion within a Diamond
Garnet Inclusions within Diamond
Garnet fragment on Diamond Girdle ...
I am new to the gem world and I ordered 18 gems to start [emerald, zircon, citrine, tourmaline, topaz, chrome diopside, tanzanite, sapphire, ruby, beryl .
It is best known for its rich-green variety, called chrome diopside. The name is an allusion to the chromium content responsible for the color. Another gemstone prized by collectors is black star diopside.
Sources -- The best known sources for chrome diopside are Russia and Kenya. Faceted stones are usually under 5 carats, and the extremely dark color makes larger stones appear black. Star and cat's-eye diopside is abundant from India.
Diopside is found in two forms, the black star diopside, and the green emerald-like Chrome diopside.Diopside also offers a classic four rayed star stone that is very much like a black star sapphire ...
Garnets, epidote, clinozoisite, zoisite and other species such as actinolite, chrome diopside, talc and other mineral species have a string of recorded occurences in the region.
It is available in a chromium-rich gem variety and is called as chrome diopside in bright color. The stone is relatively soft. It is also common to many high-temperature assemblages of the calcium-silicate units.
These gemstones include amethyst, white opal, color change garnet, ametrine, peridot, andalusite, rhodolite garnet, citrine, blue topaz, iolite, chrome diopside, kunzite, and many ornamental gemstones such as turquoise, lapis lazuli, onyx, ...
 See also: Chrome, Stone, Diopside, Color, Crystal
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