I was going through my room, and I found my childhood rocks that I have long forgotten about. I decide I would talk about each stone I have found, research what they are made of and what they mean.
Name: Brazilian Sodalite
Origin: Brazil
Research: Usually sodalite is blue or blue-violet, but can also be white or green and sometimes yellow. It contains calcium, sulfur, or chlorine in addition to sodium, aluminum, and silica. Specimens have been found that glow orange in the dark, or change color under ultraviolet light or when a broken surface is first exposed to light. Sodalite that does this is called Chameleon Sodalite. This color-changing is called Tenebrescence. It's formula is Na8(Al6Si5O24)CI2. Mohs scale hardness 5.5-6.
Power: Healing, peacefulness
Name: Aventurine
Origin: Africa
Research: Aventurine is a rock, not a mineral and is the form of a quartz. Which larger crystals interlock with grains of other color give minerals. They may contain spangles of mica or scales of Iron oxide. The color of the rock can be green or even reddish-brown. The name "A ventura" comes from the Italian word for "by chance".
Power: Confidence, mental tranquillity
Name: Gold Stone
Origin: China
Research: Gold Stone is not really a stone. It is man-made; made by a kind of glass with tiny flecks of copper inside made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere. The glass was accidentally made in Venice, and was named aventurine (accident). Gold Stone is not the same as the stone Aventurine. Gold Stone is usually copper brown, but blue or purple specimens are also found.
Power: Generating energy and deflecting unwanted energy
Name: Rose Quartz
Origin: Africa
Research: Rose Quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to red rose hue. Scientists used to think the color it makes comes from Manganese, and Titanium impurities. But now they see there are microscopic fibers of some completely new substance in Rose Quartz stones that are responsible for their color. The color does fade if put in sunlight. It's formula is SiO2.
Power: Enhances appreciation of beauty, art and music
Name: Rock Crystal
Origin: Brazil
Research: Pure Quartz are traditional called Rock Crystal. It is clear and colorless. Rock Crystal is one of the most common minerals on earth, and perhaps in the solar system as well. They have been found on both moon rocks and meterorites. It formula is SiO2, and its mohs hardness scale is 7.
Power: Amplifies psychic abilities
Name: Tiger's Eye
Origin: Africa
Research: Tiger's Eye is created when Crocidolite is pseudomorphed by Quartz. A pseudomorph is when one mineral replaces another, atom-by-atom, without changing or destroying the original mineral's outward shape. The strips in Tiger's Eye are preserved asbestos fibers. Formula is Si02, and its Mohs hardness scale is 5.5-6. It's colors go from golden to red-brown.
Power: Focus, timing, patience
Name: New Jade
Origin: China
Research: New Jade looks like a paler version of Jade, but it is acutally the mineral, Serpentine. It is a metamorphic rock made from alternating layers of silicates and elements like magnesium. Serpentine is from the Latin serpens, or serpent. Mohs hardness scale is 4-6.
Power: Peacefulness, harmony, lifting depression
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