#Semi Precious Stone Quartz

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Natural Gemstone Angel Aura Quartz 8 mm Round Smooth beads Stretch Adjus...

[grreenwitchannemarie]

Cleansing Crystals Semi N Precious Stones/Gems

Stones Merry Meet! When u own crystals u need to cleanse them if they feel energetically heavy or chaotic.let’s take clear quartz for example n cleanse it in so many ways. The best n most thorough way is to set in a window for 2 days sunlight 2 nights moonlight then u can program ur quartz to do specific tasks such as add insight on life .change negative energy to positive energy or since…

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Best Crystal Quartz Beads at Wholesale Prices - Unique Jewellers

Crystal quartz beads are also known as healing stones. These stones carry some manifesting and healing properties within them. With all these benefits they can also give an attention attention-taking look to any jewellery. We offer a variety of gemstone beads at wholesale prices. Visit our website to learn more.

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[petermorwood]

A sundae for Sunday.

But this isn't ice-cream.

It's a carving (!) by Manfred Wild, using rock crystal and semi-precious stones, and I found it here when I was sourcing images for this post.

The website description is a single unbroken paragraph, so here's a more readable version.

The glass (is) formed from exceptionally high clarity rock crystal quartz with faceted citrine rondelles and 18 karat yellow gold banding. The various and colourful “flavours” of ice cream (are) carved from thulite for strawberry, beige jasper for mocha, aventurine quartz for mint, yellow calcite for orange, white quartz for vanilla and cappuccino jasper for chocolate. (All are) topped with a bright carnelian cherry, a wafer cookie of Kalahari jasper and white dolomite whipped cream. (This) generous portion (is) topped with a gold parasol accented in sections with translucent blue, green and purple enamel over guilloche.

Amaury Guichon should do one in sugar-glass and kinds of chocolate, if he hasn't already.

I'm also remembering the time, in Germany for a friend's wedding, we went into an Eiscafé in Speyer. We don't eat elaborate ice-cream very often, so when we do we like to catch up for lost time.

What we hadn't noticed was that the Kugel (scoop) measure in this café was rather larger than usual, so when our orders came out, they looked like - in fact were - these:

On the left, @dduane’s chocolate chip, mocha and double chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. On the right, my mint choc-chip, strawberry, salt-caramel, vanilla, mango and cream. We did splendid execution on both, but had dinner a couple of hours later than originally intended...

Neither was as long-lasting as the carved-crystal-and-minerals one, but the memory section of my Mind Palate confirms that they were infinitely more flavoursome.

Yum.

[victusinveritas]

Behold the work of Kathleen Ryan. She uses semi precious stones like onyx, smokey quartz, lapis and garnets attached with stainless steel pins to a polystyrene and wood form. On average a 30” wide lemon can take two months and have 10,000 beads.

[inspofromancientworld]

The History of Glass and Glass Making

Glass is an amorphous solid, often transparent material. The amorphous part means that the atoms aren't aligned in any particular order. It is formed when molten silicon containing compounds are cooled rapidly. It is fairly easy to shape and is inert, meaning it won't interact with most chemicals, making it a good container for many things.

By Ji-ElleIt feels nice and warmIt feels like a love storm - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15527635 By Stickpen - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10689767 By H. Raab (User:Vesta) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=488611 and By H. Raab (User:Vesta) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=486872

Natural glass comes in a few forms, such as obsidian from volcanoes, fulgurites from lightning strikes, Moldavite from meteorite impacts in central and eastern Europe, Libyan desert glass from meteorite impacts in the Sahara, and the more general impactite as the name for glass created by meteorite impacts, and Edeowie glass, which we're still trying to figure out what created it.

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During the Stone Age, many societies used tools made from obsidian glass, knapped into blades for cutting and traded widely given the limited sources, it being only found near volcanoes, and the wide spread of the tools we find. As metal working began to grow in the Bronze Age, resulting in beads being found in the slag and the creation of faience, a type of glazing that used quartz that is heated so it becomes glass-like used by the Egyptians.

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/studies-in-early-egyptian-glass

True glass making likely started in the Late Bronze Age in Egypt and Megiddo. Archaeologists have found glass ingots of various colors, vessels that mimicked semi-precious stone carvings, and deliberately made beads. Soda ash (sodium carbonate) from plant ash was added to sand to create glass which was then extracted into a rope and formed into vessel by coiling it around a clay or sand shape then reheating it multiple times to make the layers fuse together. Beads were more easily formed this way. Colored glass was made by various metallic oxides and then applied to vessels by drawing the glass into finer lines and then rolling the vessels or beads until the surface was smooth, a process called marvering. Handles and feet were made and applied separately. Much of the rest of glass production was done when it was cold, taking techniques from stone working to finish the glass when it was cooled. These techniques were closely guarded secrets of various palace controlled industries centered around Western Asia, Crete, and Egypt. By the 15th century BCE, Linear B script has been found that translates to 'workers of lapis lazuli and glass' (𐀓𐀷𐀜𐀺𐀒𐀂, ku-wa-no-wo-ko-i).

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The Late Bronze Age Collapse brought glass making to a near complete halt until the 9th century BCE in Syria and Cyprus when they discovered how to make colorless glass. Ashurbanipal's library contained instructions on how to make glass from about 650 BCE. Egypt's glass industry wasn't revived until the Ptolemies took over in 305 BCE. Glass making techniques were experimented with resulting in advancement, including 'slumping' (draping not quite molten glass over a form to make dishes), millefiori, where colored glass canes were sliced into small pieces and then fused together to create a mosaic-like tile effect. Glass blowing was discovered during the 1st century BCE, making glass vessels much easier to produce and 'inexpensive compared to pottery vessels'. Clear glass, which required the addition of manganese dioxide, was discovered in Alexandria around 100 CE, which led to the development of window glass (though the technique to make them made them quite poor optically) with windows found in the wealthiest villas in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

source https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-021-09467-1

In India, the earliest glass is a brown bead dated to about 1700 BCE though widespread evidence of glass usage didn't occur until the 3rd century BCE when large quantities of jewelry and vessels were discovered in Taxila. The first site to produce glass in India is Kopia in Uttar Pradesh which was apparently in use from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Based on the chemical composition, India produced its own glass rather than importing it from the Near East or China.

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China was slow to adopt glass, preferring ceramics and metal working. The first evidence of glass is from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), though it remained rare and mostly beads and imported rather than locally produced. During the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), local glass production began and importation decreased greatly. After the Han Dynasty, glass production decreased until the 4th and 5th centuries CE.

[mjrtaurus]

If Crocodile could ever learn to extend his reach of sand (tiny bits of silica) to quartz (BIG bits of silica), that could drop his 4x water weakness to the standard Devil Fruit user 2x water weakness. He wouldn't have to be worried about getting splashed or being in the rain and having his powers negated.

He may not be quite as fast as he would be able to be with sand, but now he's a living, breathing semi-precious stone instead of all the vital bits under a thin layer of clay (which silica compacts into when exposed to water). Tell me he wouldn't be able to both tank and dish out some nasty hits.

[yellowjacketsfashion]

Lottie’s necklace from episode 02x01 is from the Kate Shepherd Creative. The round stone pendant is the “Round Rose Quartz Guardian Angel Talisman” and the chain is the “Hand Faceted Adjustable Gemstone Necklace” in Pink Tourmaline.

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This is quartz from Peru 🇵🇪. Visit our website to view our selection.

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Beautify Areas with Fine Semi-Precious Stone Slabs

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Moss Agate

Chalcedony, quartz family

Chemical Composition

SiO2

-a semi-precious gemstone formed from silicon dioxide, it is a type of chalcedony which has a green color in the stone with similar looks of moss.

-Calming

-Stress relief

-New beginnings

-Grounding/stability/emotional balance

-Helps move away from emotional drama

-Promotes abundance/good luck/Prosperity

-Promotes intuitively

-Peace

-Associated with Virgo

-Promotes new friendships

-Planet: Moon

-Element: Earth

-Confidence

-6.5- 7 Mohs

-Promotes Patience

-Protection of energy

-I personally love putting it in to help keep my plant's energies safe and help keep them alive and thriving.

Moss Agate Care

warm water/soapy water no harsh chemicals.

Use soft brushes and clothes to avoid scratches.

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The Dupont Family Skeletons

Group 1: Organics

Obsidian (Deceased, NPC)

Pearl

Amber

Jet

Group 2: Rocks

Granite

Sandstone

Pumice

Limestone

Gneiss

Basalt

Group 3: Moonstones

Labradorite

Alexandrite

Paraiba

Turquoise

Aquamarine

Group 4: Diamonds

Green Beryl

Yellow Sapphire

Diamond

Peridot

Group 5: Grey Spinels

Fire Opal

Carnelian

Sunstone

Citrine

Padparadscha

Orange Sapphire

Group 6: Quartz

Tiger Eye

Smoky

Agate

Ametrine

Praseolite

Chrysoprase

Onyx

Group 7: Semi-Precious Stones

Tourmaline

Pyrite

Cristobalite

Red Jasper