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Confusing gemstone names

Some of the gemstone names are very confusing. All of us have heard about cat's eye. The natural cat's eye is a translucent yellowish chatoyant chrysoberyl (sometimes is is called cymophane), this variety of chrysoberyl exhibits pleasing chatoyant or opalescence that reminds one of an eye of a cat. Some sellers call cat's eye any of a variety of gems, such as some forms of chalcedony, that are chatoyant when cut in a rounded shape. But there is one more cat's eye - manmade glass that reflects light in a way reminiscent of a cat's eye, and this gem can be pink, blue, green, black - of almost any possible color!

Another example is aventurine. Natural aventurine is a shimmering quartz stone that ranges in color from yellow to red to light green to blue to light brown. The shimmer is caused by tiny metallic particles within the stone. Because of golden glitter aventurine is sometimes also called goldstone. Another aventurine is a shimmering glass with golden glitter due to copper crystals suspended in or pressed into the surface of other materials, this gem is manmade and is usually bright brown to almost black.


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Contributed by Zoya Gutina on February 20, 2008, at 9:34 PM UTC.

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