About turquoise mineral

Chinese Name: turquoise, also known as turquoise, jade Turkey, Turks Yu English name: Turquoise turquoise happy Buddha.

Chemical formula: CuAl6 (PO4) 4 (OH) 8.5 H2O turquoise due to the elements contained in different colors are different, mostly sky blue, light blue, green, blue, green, with pale green color. Blue copper oxides, iron oxide green, the color is an important factor affecting the quality turquoise.

Turquoise to sky blue porcelain loose, like a glazed porcelain is the best. If irregular wire, its poor quality on the. Value than white turquoise blue, green lower. Iron in the block in the "black line" is called "wire turquoise" in foreign countries called the "blue onyx turquoise."

Also known as emerald, turquoise, because of its color, named after the shape of green pine cones, is the world's rare and expensive varieties of precious stones, one of its type in Europe through Turkey, and therefore, "the Turkish Jade," said, also known as "Turks jade." Turquoise products has become an important collection, is a secondary mineral from copper, aluminum and phosphorus in the groundwater in the early leaching from granite, the veins in the near-surface sediment in the TB, is the matrix dykes the parcel. Turquoise jewelry is the first for the mineral species.

Turquoise is loved by people all times of the ancient jade far as the Neolithic period to the ornaments for people to use.

Yangshao Village in Henan Province, Zhengzhou Great (6500 ~ 4000 years ago) cultural relics unearthed in the ruins of turquoise, there are two fish-shaped turquoise jewelry. Yongjing river village unearthed in Gansu, China has 3800 years ago the turquoise 20. Queen of Egypt 5,000 years ago (Zer Queen) mummy's arm, wearing four turquoise gold bracelet.

Beautiful turquoise color products, by ancient and modern people, especially Muslims and people loved the western United States. Mainland China is currently the first processed turquoise jewelry and crafts, popular around the world, all raw materials are Chinese-grown.

Gem Turquoise is the geological process of formation, to the main level by the turquoise jade mineral composition of the dense massive collection. This definition emphasizes that it is in the process of geological formation, and other synthetic turquoise and jade different.

 There is a beautiful legend: Sky Goddess colorful stone, turquoise is one of them, now in Shiyan City, Hubei Province Zhushan distributed more! Turquoise is a copper and aluminum phosphate mineral aggregates, opaque blue to most features. There are light blue, blue, green, light green, yellow, gray, pale color and other colors. General hardness of 5 to 6, the density of 2.6 to 2.9, the refractive index of about 1.62. Long-wave UV light, can be made light green to blue fluorescence. Turquoise is not very uniform texture, color, with a shallow depth, even with light-colored stripes, brown spots and black wire. A greater degree of density difference between the pores are loose, ranging from dense hard. After polishing the glass with a soft sheen to waxy luster. After polishing quality product like the glaze on the porcelain, so the title "porcelain turquoise." Turquoise also has the disadvantage that turquoise heat fade, but also susceptible to acid corrosion discoloration. In addition, the lower the hardness of the more developed porosity of turquoise, the more fragile with water absorption and defects, and thus grease, stains, perspiration, cosmetics, tea, rust, etc. are possible along the pore entry, makes it difficult to remove the discoloration. Turquoise is a more delicate varieties of jade. Whether it is processing, the process required to prepare or use additional care. But as long as kept clean, free from high temperature and high impact, should not be a problem. After turquoise water is a modern mineralogy of copper and aluminum phosphate, are classified in the phosphate minerals. This is a precipitate of mineral water. Dip in the turquoise liquid flow generated by the process of settling the color from blue green to light green, light yellow. Hardness due to the pressure forming process of crystallization and post-stress and lead to quite different weathering conditions, turquoise gem identification in the modern classification is classified as semi-precious stones, precious jewelry, which is the blue stone varieties, blue and blue-green pure green and other colors, compact structure can serve as high-end art sculpture were preferred, because of its beautiful turquoise color is one thing Fangchuan Cheng Dramas of the gem.

Gem Properties
Turquoise is usually presented dense block, kidney-shaped, bell emulsion, hull shape and other aggregates, especially those with a unique blue or "turquoise" that a person will see the dawn.

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