Multicolored Tourmaline
Tourmalines are true miracles of colour. Crystals with only one colour are fairly rare, there mostly being various different colours and colour nuances in one and the same stone.
Multicolored
Used to describe a single crystal made of different coloured parts.
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Multicolored jadeite bead necklace
Hetian Jade
Hetian Nephrite is mined in the high altitude Kunlun Mountains (4500 m) in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of north-western China, near the Mongolian and Russian boarder.
Color: Multicolored, colorless, pink, red, yellow, brown, black, blue, purple, and green
Hardness: 7 to 7.5
Transparency: Transparent to Opaque ...
Opal is a soft, multicolored gemstone
that is in the silica family. Actually, opal is
hydrated silica - it has a very high water content.
(Up to 20% of the weight can be water!) ...
The image is usually cut through the layers of a multicolored material such as the Sardonyx shell, or agate.
Apatite is a calcium phosphate that is typically green, but also can be blue, yellow, reddish-brown, violet, yellow-green ("asparagus stone"), colorless or multicolored.
Iridescence: This phenomenon is seen as a multicolored, surface effect. It is caused by diffraction.
It also occurs in shades of dark green with red, brown and multicolored spots. It is green plasma containing red spots of jasper, which look like spots of blood giving the stone its descriptive name.
They are known for their fire agate and the multicolored fire agates are found in Calville in Aguascalientes.
The central part of the third type of vein shows lepidolite, blue cleavelandite, multicolored tourmaline, kunzite (lilac-colored spodumene), white-pink spodumene, beryl and pollucite.
Early Roman enamels were also of this type where they used pieces of multicolored glass ("millefiori") and placed them in a predestined pattern.
Elbaite: pink or green, also multicolored
Indicolite: intense indigo to ink-blue
Rainbow Tourmaline or ‘papageios': multiple colors of top of one another
Rubellite: pink to red, sometimes with a slight shade of violet ...
An eye catching phenomenon of fluorite is its distinctive multicolored banding. Chunky fluorite bead strands optimize this exceptional effect.
Agate is known for the multicolored bands that might be likened to tiger stripes or tree rings. This beautiful feature is what makes agate such a popular gemstone. Some evidence shows that agate has been used by Human beings for up to 15,000 years.
Watermelon tourmaline is a tourmaline gemstone that is multicolored, going from pink to green. The Schreiner pin above is made of paste (glass) watermelon tourmaline.
WATER SAPPHIRE ...
Appearance
Opaque, black with various multicolored spots somewhat like leopard jasper.
Enhancements
Oolitic jasper is not enhanced.
WATERMELON TOURMALINE
Watermelon tourmaline is a tourmaline gemstone that is multicolored, going from pink to green. The Schreiner pin above is made of paste (glass) watermelon tourmaline.
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I have ignited man's imagination for more than 2,000 years with the flashes of fire that magically burn within my depths. My multicolored flame makes me unique in the world of gemstones - giving me more variety of color and versatility of wear than ...
Mid 19th C. - The class of ware decorated with multicolored prints of the so-called "pot-lid" type.
Bugle Bead
Bugle Bead is a style of bead that is thin and long, usually made of multicolored glass.
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Dicrolic Glass
A glass, which contains extremely thin layers of chromium, silicon, titanium, aluminum and zirconium, giving it beautiful multicolored appearance, that changes with different view angles. Back to Index ...
black(schorl)(uvite), dravite(brown), pink & red (rubellite), blue (indicolite), green, chrome green, yellow, orange, violet (siberite), multicolored
Hardness:
7 - 7.5 ...
2. Because she's an avid gardener, flowers that will be truly perennial - a 14-karat pin or pendant with an extravagant assortment of multicolored gemstone blossoms.
sheen (silk) and some have an interior series of minute, needle-like inclusions (feathers) of rutile; these, when properly cut en cabochon, are star rubies and star sapphires or, when having only one ray of light, 'corundum cat's-eye'. Multicolored ...
to an opaque milky white glass produced in the mid 15th century to imitate porcelain, allowing direct competition with real porcelain pieces from China. At this time it was particularly useful for manufacturing objects decorated with multicolored ...
To me, labradorite also has a moonlike quality, that of the moon on a cloudy night, its light filtered and grayed. It particularly resembles the multicolored aura of the moon on a foggy or misty night.
Metallic vanadium was isolated by Henry Enfield Roscoe in 1867, who reduced vanadium(III) chloride VCl3 with hydrogen. The name vanadium comes from Vanadis, a goddess in Scandinavian mythology, because the element has beautiful multicolored chemical ...
The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone. Aurora Borealis is a term for crystal stones that have a highly iridescent surface. As to beads, iridescent finish is achieved by placing a pastel multicolored coating ...
These materials are what determine the color and appearance of the stone. Because of these foreign materials, jasper is rarely uniform in color, it is usually multicolored, striped, mottled and/or spotted.
Millefiori Glass Beads - The millefiori technique involves the production of canes or rods, known as Murrine with multicolored patterns which are viewable only from the cut ends of the cane.
as a 'rubellite', but if it changes the color on change in the light source then the stone is called pink or shocking pink tourmaline. Stones with two colors are known as bicolored tourmalines, and those with more than two are known as multicolored ...
multicolored Exhibiting two or more colors on a single specimen. multiple oxides (subgroup) Minerals that are compounds of two different metallic elements combined with oxygen. The multiple oxides are a subgroup of the oxides.
When transparent and of good color, it is faceted to produce a brilliant, multicolored gem.
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