?What is the Opal Stone
?What is the Opal Stone
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?What is the Opal Stone |
?What is the Opal Stone
The opal stone is a semi-transparent gemstone with a glittering gloss. It is a non-crystalline, non-crystalline silica. It also varies in color from transparent to milky white with an infinite number of other colors such as green, red, yellow, brown, It also contains water as much as 20% and sometimes the water dries up. The Opal stone is covered with tiny cracks, and since its beauty is concentrated in the lights that shine inside it, its surface is rarely cut and polished in a nice round shape.
Information on the Opal Stone
It is used in the manufacture of jewelry, including blue, white, black, Portuguese red, green and yellow, the degree of hardness is low and has a glittering shine, and is extracted from the Czech Republic, Australia, Mexico and the desert of Nevada and Honduras, also known as the stone opal It has a single white line, and the Portuguese Red Opal is known as the fire opal. Geologists also consider that opals are not metal but semi-minerals because of the absence of an internal or crystalline arrangement, and chemically is a silica united with water. Its low purity and low gloss is one of the most precious stones Since the Roman civilization and until now, the name of this metal is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning precious stone, and its high value comes from the manipulation of colors in the light of this metal and the scarcity of its existence.
Types of opal stone
Firefly is known as the sun's eye.
It is called the Australian White Opal and is characterized by rainbow colors.
The water is called the light opal without fire, sometimes it is colorless and when it is immersed in the water it becomes transparent and glows to show its attractive colors.
The sun rose is known as the "sun opal" and its color is red blue.
The tree is transparent white with black trees.
Black is the most beautiful and expensive types of opals because it is very rare.
The names of the Opal Stone
The Opal Stone has many names, most notably:
Eye of the Sun.
Eye of the Pyramid.
Tiger Eye.
Quartz.
Firestone