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From the light blue of the sky to the deep blue of the sea, aquamarines shine over an extraordinarily beautiful range of mainly light blue colours. Aquamarine is a fascinatingly beautiful gemstone. Women the world over love it for its fine blue shades which can complement almost any skin or eye colour, and creative gemstone designers are inspired by it as they are by hardly any other gem, which enables them to create new artistic cuts again and again.
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Its light blue arouses feelings of sympathy, trust, harmony and friendship. Good feelings. Feelings which are based on mutuality and which prove their worth in lasting relationships. The blue of aquamarine is a divine, eternal colour, because it is the colour of the sky. However, aquamarine blue is also the colour of water with its life-giving force. And aquamarine really does seem to have captured the lucid blue of the oceans. No wonder, when you consider that according to the saga it originated in the treasure chest of fabulous mermaids, and has, since ancient times, been regarded as the sailors' lucky stone. Its name is derived from the Latin 'aqua' (water) and 'mare' (sea). It is said that its strengths are developed to their best advantage when it is placed in water which is bathed in sunlight. However, it is surely better still to wear aquamarine, since according to the old traditions this promises a happy marriage and is said to bring the woman who wears it joy and wealth into the bargain. An ideal gem, not only for loving and married couples.
A gemstone with many good qualities
Aquamarine is one of our most popular and best-known gemstones, and distinguishes itself by many good qualities. It is almost as popular as the classics: ruby, sapphire and emerald. In fact it is related to the emerald, both belonging to the beryl family. The colour of aquamarine, however, is usually more even than that of the emerald. Much more often than its famous green cousin, aquamarine is almost entirely free of inclusions. Aquamarine has good hardness (7.5 to 8 on the Mohs scale) and a wonderful shine. That hardness makes it very tough and protects it to a large extent from scratches. Iron is the substance which gives aquamarine its colour, a colour which ranges from an almost indiscernible pale blue to a strong sea-blue. The more intense the colour of an aquamarine, the more value is put on it. Some aquamarines have a light, greenish shimmer; that too is a typical feature. However, it is a pure, clear blue that continues to epitomise the aquamarine, because it brings out so well the immaculate transparency and magnificent shine of this gemstone.
'Santa Maria' sets pulses racing
The bright blue of this noble beryl is making more and more friends. The various colour nuances of aquamarine have melodious names: the rare, intense blue aquamarines from the Santa Maria de Itabira mine in Brazil, which make every gemstone lover's heart beat faster, are called 'Santa Maria'. Similar nuances come from a few gemstone mines in Africa, particularly Mozambique. To help distinguish them from the Brazilian ones, these aquamarines have been given the name 'Santa Maria Africana'. The 'Espirito Santo' colour of aquamarines from the Brazilian state of that name is of a blue that is not quite so intense. Yet other qualities are embodied in the stones from Fortaleza and Marambaia. One beautiful aquamarine colour was named after the Brazilian beauty queen of 1954, and has the name 'Martha Rocha'.
It can be seen from the names of aquamarine colours just how important Brazil is among the countries where aquamarine is found. Most of the raw crystals for the world market come from the gemstone mines of that large South American country. Every now and then, large aquamarine crystals of immaculate transparency are also found with a magnificent colour, a combination which is very unusual in gemstones. And very occasionally, sensationally large aquamarine crystals come to light in Brazil, such as the crystal of 110.5 Kg found in 1910 in Marambaia/Minas Gerais, or for example the 'Dom Pedro', weighing 26 Kg and cut in Idar-Oberstein in 1992 by the gemstone designer Bernd Munsteiner, the largest aquamarine ever to have been cut. However, aquamarines are also found in other countries, for example Nigeria, Zambia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Favourite stone of modern designers
There is hardly any other gemstone in modern jewellery design which is refined in such a variety of ways as aquamarine. Whether it is fashioned as a clear, transparent gem in the classical step cut, or creatively cut in a more modern design, it is always fascinatingly beautiful. Uncut too, or with many inclusions which can be brought into play by the designer in the way in which the stone is cut, it can be refined to produce the most beautiful creations. Designers call it their favourite gemstone. Again and again they take the world by surprise with a new, modern artistic cut, and when they are breaking new ground, aquamarine is a gem that they particularly like to work with. Without doubt, these creative designer cuts have contributed to the great popularity of this gem. The lucid colour of aquamarine makes it easy to see inclusions. For this reason, aquamarine should always be of the greatest possible transparency. On the other hand, particularly charming effects can sometimes be achieved in the way the gemstone is cut by bringing the inclusions into play. The light colour of aquamarine leaves the gemstone designer free to bring out the brilliance of the gem with fine grooves, notches, curves and edges. In this way, each aquamarine becomes a unique specimen, whose magical attraction no woman can resist. |
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蓝宝石的英文名称为Aquamarinl，源于拉丁语Sea Water“海水”。传说，这种美丽的宝石产于海底，是海水之精华，所以航海家用它祈祷海神保佑航海安全，称其为“福神石”。我国宝石界称海蓝宝石为“蓝晶”。
海蓝宝石、祖母绿和绿宝石在矿物学中都称为绿柱石，都是透明的绿柱石晶体。绿柱石是一种含铍、铝的硅酸盐，分子式为Be3Al2[Si6O18]。海蓝宝石的颜色为天蓝色至海蓝色或带绿的蓝色的绿柱石。它的颜色主要是由于含微量的二价铁离子(Fe2+)，以明洁无暇、浓艳的艳蓝至淡蓝色者为最佳。属六方晶系。常见的晶体形态为六方柱，其次为六方双锥，集合体多呈柱状产出。玻璃光泽，透明至半透明。折光率1.567-1.590，双折射率0.005-0.007。 多色性明显，为蓝到蓝绿色。硬度7.5，密度2.68-2.80克/立方厘米。贝壳状断口。X射线照射下不发光。韧性良好。
海蓝宝石与相似天然宝石、人造合成海蓝宝石的区别。与海蓝宝石相似的天然宝石有蓝色黄玉和改色锆石，人造合成海蓝宝石有蓝色尖晶石和人造玻璃。与黄玉、锆石的最佳区别方法是密度：黄玉3.59克/立方厘米，锆石4.69克/立方厘米，密度明显偏大，手掂有重感。放大镜下观察底刻面棱角处，锆石、黄玉均可显双影，海蓝宝石不十分清楚。锆石色散高。晶体形态：黄玉斜方柱状，锆石四方柱状。人造玻璃和人造蓝色尖晶石颜色虽然与其相似，但是都为均质体，无二色性，以此为区别。
海蓝宝石的评价与选购。依据因素是颜色、透明度和重量。颜色深，无暇，重量大的为佳品。海蓝宝石的特征是天蓝色、海蓝色，玻璃光泽，包裹体少，洁净、透明，具弱二色性，六方柱状晶形。海蓝宝石较脆，怕高温，高温下易炸裂，遇火烤会褪色。佩带时应避免撞击，远离火源。
海蓝宝石长期以来被人们奉为“勇敢者之石”，并被看成幸福和永保青春的标志。世界上许多国家把海蓝宝石定为“三月诞生石”，象征沉着、勇敢和聪明。西方人认为，佩带海蓝宝石能够使人具有先见之明。同时，它还具有催眠和压邪的力量以及神奇的医用价值，用海蓝宝石浸过的水可以治眼疾、迸气和打呃。
海蓝宝石主要赋存于伟晶岩矿床-糖粒状钠长石化伟晶岩中，世界上最著名的海蓝宝石产地在巴西的米纳斯吉拉斯州；其次是俄罗斯、中国等地区。据报道，1912年曾在巴西发现长19英寸，宽16英寸，重243磅的海蓝宝石晶体，内绿外蓝，非常透明。到目前为止应该是世界上最大的海蓝宝石.
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能幫助語言表達能力、語言能力、維持喉部健康及平衡淋巴系統操作 |
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媛和心理壓力、鎮安心神 |
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適合一些要使用語言、談話、聲線等的行業。 |
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喉輪乃體力與靈力的轉換處，而海藍寶便是最佳的喉輪石。 |
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改善呼吸系統毛病，加強表達能力、說服力。 |
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| 化学成分:硅酸铍鋁 [Be3Al2(SiO2)6]
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