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Color:
Colorless, white, cream, peach,
brown
Durability:
Good, but well-developed cleavage
Localities:
World-wide
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Moonstone
(K, Na) AlSi3O8
Moonstone is a variety of albite feldspar,
which is a sodium aluminum silicate. Moonstones can occur
colorless, white, blue-white,and pale shades of peach and
apricot. The rarest and most expensive will be colorless
with a floating blue color that seems to hover above the
stone. This phenomenon is termed adularescence. In India
it was believed that moonstones placed in the mouth during
a full moon would allow you to correctly envision the future.
Until the 19th century, moonstones were thought to make
people invisible, allowing only their spirits to wander
about. A variation of that belief still persists today.
It's been claimed that moonstone can lead to psychic immortality
because it fortifies the spirit to stand alone from the
body.
In
Europe, moonstone is considered the birthstone for June,
although in the United States,alexandrite and pearl
are the chosen birthstones for June. |
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