Color Change Garnet is a rare and valuable variety of garnet with the alexandrite effect.
The alexandrite effect is the effect of changing the color in a stone when lighting is changed.
In 1961, the Swiss artist Johannes Itten created a specific palette of colors - the color wheel. He came up with this tool in order to help beginning painters to simplify their work with paints. Later on, this circle was slightly refined, and became a very effective table for color combination.
The image of a Russian beauty is quite recognizable. It is a kokoshnik, rich fabrics, a lot of jewelry. Here is the most interesting thing - jewelry used to serve not only and not so much for beauty purposes. Many of them carried a sacred meaning - they served as talismans and amulets.
In the early 2000s, zircon crystals were found in the Jack Hills area in Western Australia, whose age is more than 4.4 billion years. ⠀
4.4 (!!!) billion (!!!) years (!!!) 😳
In the Denisova Cave in the Altai scientists of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have found pendants made of elk teeth whose age is more than 40 thousand years (!!!) - an incredible figure.
Aquamarine is the most beautiful, noble stone, thus it is not surprising that representatives of the royal families very often paid attention to it.
💎 The word "beryl" comes from the Latin beryllus, the latter in its turn is derived from the Greek βήρυλλος, which translates as "precious blue-green color-of-sea-water stone."
Alexandrite is a rare variety of the mineral chrysoberyl that can change its color. Chromium is responsible for the color change of the stone.
The word asymmetry comes from ancient Greek ασυμμετρία "disproportion" from μετρέω "measure" - absence or violation of symmetry.
Most often, the term is used in relation to visual objects and in the visual arts.
A cocktail ring is a noticeable, rather massive piece of jewelry that can occupy the entire phalanx of a finger, with a big stone (usually 5 carats and more) or with some decorative element, or with many stones and a complex design.
