Maybe you should first clarify what we mean gems below. The misunderstanding that can give rise to long ago minerals is divided into two areas: semi-precious vehicles and gems. The term is not now used in scientific circles, and are opposed, because it's misleading. There are, however, more expensive and less expensive stones, but if, of course, are generated and manipulated in a uniform gems and their value count. In fact the gems belongs to the group of pearl, coral and amber, which are organic matter, and minerals. Here are the 10 most popular colored gems:
The order is, of course, the current fashion and shopping habits in accordance with changes all the time and to which colored gems in the top 10 in Hungary and in the world. Below is a general popularity list, we know.
10. Opal
The name refers to a rainbow like shine, depending on how we keep to the light, so controlling. Relatively soft color gemstones, so they don't edges to Polish it. Typically féldomború, kaboson form. If this special envoy was singled out, it is worth to know that the opal is especially sensitive to pressure and impact, as well as the various cleaners, cosmetic products and soap. Interestingly, water included, and if you lose it and dry it decreases the sparkle and megrepedezhet, resulting in a more fragile it becomes. If opal stone containing jewelry, we have worth sometimes wet vattába to pack and store.
9. Tanzanite
The name of only one site refers to that of Tanzania. 1967-was discovered in arusha in the Kilimandzáróhoz close.
Almost overnight it became popular in the leading jewelry designers and other gems deal among professionals.
The tanzania rombos prism in crystallizing them. A characteristic feature is that a strong pleokroizmusa (more színűség). The polar light illuminating crystal in different directions by turning a different colour for you. The blue and the purple different shades. A lot of natural light can also be seen in this characteristic.
8. Tourmaline
Although in ancient times it was known in the mediterranean, the Dutch only in 1703 he was brought in at the time in ceylon to Europe.
The tourmaline family are members of the same kristáyformájúak, but a lot of colors occur, colourless to black. Only gemstone not show the same colour riches, like the tourmaline, multi-color and color-changing specimens also occur. Most common ones, which have their own names: the ruble thickness (pink, red), mean siberia (violet colour), indigo thickness (blue), verde thickness (green), Drava (in brown, orange), want of (colorless), Sörlé (black), watermelon tourmaline (green, pink band). Crystals typically are oblong, opaque, triangular cross-section and well-rounded side with.
7. Aquamarine
Name of the latin aqua (water) and mare (sea) words received, and the seawater color refers to. A legend of the mermaid sea floor guarded by a bitch from them, therefore, became the seamen and the sea travelers good luck rock from this. The aquamarine of the beryl mineral group. 20. century, the art-deco jewelry geometric line of jewelry in a number of aquamarine have been taken to the goldsmith masters. Nowadays, it is also popular in the modern jewelry industry, also widely use.
6. Pearl
The pearl of mankind, perhaps the oldest companion of the gems among. For thousands of years, you know. The pearl breeding 19 and 20. the turn of the century on was created in Japan, and then gradually eclipsed the cultured pearl the pearl fishing and trading. Today, practically, old objects, with the exception of just farmed with beads meet you. The colored beads are among the popular pink and tahitian pearls, which are typically dark shades of their famous. Black, gray, purple, blue and green hues delicious.
5. Topaz
The topaz has a very broad color range. Most typical and most common shades of yellow and blue, rare rose colored shades. Sometimes even colorless, brown, orange, yellow, green, red and purple colors. The Imperial topaz medium reddish orange to orange-red range, is very rare. The topaz color, however, in many cases heating change.
4. Emerald
The emerald, the beryl group noblest and most popular piece. The name of the Greek szmaragdosz word from which green following means. This color is so characteristic that the name of a particular shade candidate for the color scale. The emeralds are often cloud inclusions, that is, with some exceptions, is not counted as an error, on the contrary, this is thanks to a special beauty. A hard, but brittle gem, the inclusions caused a lot of tension in it, so easily broken. Typical sanding of the rectangular, cascade form, which the gems after emerald grinding is also called.
3. Ruby
The name of the latin rubeus (red) comes from the word. 1800 over the world recognise the sapphire with a mineralogical group, the corundum group. The red of various shades of appear. The large sizes of rubies are rarer than the similar sized diamonds. The ruby is the most expensive stones include. Famous rubies indian princes treasure chambers, reigns crown jewel is one and different museums were placed.
2. Sapphire
The name in Greek blue means. The blue shades of the best-known, and most valuable of cornflower blue, but sometimes colourless, yellow, orange, pink, violet, green. Pinkish-orange version of padparadsának, the colorless and leukozafírnak name. The tangerine together to form the corundum group. Today any corundum that's not red sapphire is called.
1. Colored diamonds
The diamonds were not used to the colored gems included, since it is the most common and best known for the white, transparent type. However, more and more people are looking for the colored versions of which are quite rare and special. The most common of them are the yellow and brown shades, but virtually any color can be.