猫眼石（A cats-eye）.docVIP

猫眼石（A cats-eye） There are many gems with cat eye effect. The cat eye effect gemological circle Gold Emerald opal The stone is called opal, the general said the opal refers to the golden green cats eye stone, and the other has a cat eye effect of gem, the name must plus gems in the cats eye two words before, such as sapphire, tourmaline and opal opal. Strictly speaking, cats eye is not the name of a gemstone, but an optical phenomenon that occurs on some gems. The ground into a hemispherical gem with strong light irradiation, the surface will appear a reflective narrow bright, is called the cat eye flash or cat live light, then according to the gem is named after what, if the gem is quartz, is called quartz, if it is a Chrysoberyl, is called green gold the cats eye. There may be many kinds of gems with cats eye glitter. According to statistics, there may be as many as 30 kinds. The more common ones in the market are quartz cat eye and golden green cat eye, as well as pyroxene cat eye and Aquamarine cat eye. Because the golden green cat eye is the most famous and the most precious, it is also used to be called cats eye, and other cats eyes can not be called. The opal is one of the Chrysoberyl in mineralogy, belonging to the golden beryl minerals. The gold beryl contains beryllium and aluminum oxides, and the chemical formula is BeAl2O4. Orthorhombic system. Crystal morphology is usually short columnar or plate-like. Opal has a variety of colors, such as honey yellow, yellow brown, yellow, brown, yellow wine, yellow, gray and green, of which the most valuable honey yellow. Transparent to translucent. Glass to grease gloss. Refractive index 1.746-1.755, birefringence 0.008-0.010. Two color is obvious, dispersion 0.015, heterogeneous body. Hardness 8.5, density 3.71-3.75 gram / cubic centimeter. Shell fracture. Yellow opal stone ball The difference between cats eye and other similar gems, cats eye and artificial cats eye. Nature can produce chatoyancy gems are tourmaline