All About Citrines
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Citrine is any quartz crystal or cluster that is yellow or orange in color. Although often cut as a gemstone, citrine is actually somewhat rare in nature. Most citrines on the market have been heat treated. Specimens of low grade, inexpensive amethyst or smoky quartz are often cooked at high temperatures to produce the more profitable orange yellow citrine. Citrine whose colors have been produced by artificial means tend to have much more of an orange or reddish caste than those found in nature, which are usually a pale yellow. Much of the natural citrine may have started out as amethyst but heat from nearby magmatic bodies may have caused the change to citrine.
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Citrine Gems
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# USES: Gemstone and ornamental stone.
# BIRTHSTONE FOR: November
# COLOR: various shades of yellow and orange.
# INDEX OF REFRACTION: 1.544-1.553
# BIREFRINGENCE: 0.009
# HARDNESS: 7
# CLEAVAGE: none
# CRYSTAL SYSTEM: trigonal
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Citrine Rings
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Citrine Earrings
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citrine reference
Quartz (from German German Loan Words in English) is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust (after feldspar). It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2.
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- Citrine is a variety of quartz, and ranges from pale yellow to brown. (A lot of what is sold as citrine is in fact heated amethyst or smoky quartz, other minerals in the quartz family. "Lemon quartz" is one or more of the quartzes ...
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