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Things to Consider Before You Dunk Your Crystals in Water for Cleansing (or for whatever reason)-- A Summary of the Contents of the link below~~

1. Hardness level: Aye, my fellow jewelry enthusiasts, witches, and magicians, behold, the MOHS Scale. It's our friend. "The MOHS Hardness Scale starts with talc at 1 being the softest mineral and ending with diamond at 10 being the hardest mineral. It is universally used around the world as a way of distinguishing minerals. Simply put: the higher the number, the harder the mineral." - gemrockauctions.com

2. Purity: Did you know that for some crystals and gems, the higher the purity is, the softer or more brittle they actually are? This is another reason the Mohs Scale is important. The scale assumes that the gemstones are at its purest form. You can use it as a reference for the level of purity of the stone you are buying.

3. Water Resistance/ Water Solubility: Since some crystals are softer in its purest form while some are harder, certain types of stone are more likely to wear down faster if soaked in water or exposed to anything liquid. For example, with the softness of pure selenite, not only can you easily scratch it with a fingernail, you can also expect it to become mushy and disintegrate in water. If it doesn't do either of the two after a thorough soak or frequent exposure to liquids, it's definitely been "treated" in one way or another.

4. Treatments: Hardening agents, Color enhancements, and Coating/ polishing enhancements--it is very common for soft and chalky minerals to be mixed with stabilizers or hardeners. This allows them to sell gems in larger batches and at a cheaper price. Often times, the "diluted" or "treated" gems also undergo other forms of treatments in the process to enhance its appearance.

--Please check out the link below if you're interested in the whole post :3

Saltwater rinse, Sound frequency cleansing, moon-water cleansing, moonlight baths, smudging-- and many other ways of cleansing divination to

Mohs Hardness Scale!

Honestly I'm more surprised that I had this many. I'll most likely never own all of them, but it's still interesting to compare!

Also that crystal over gypsum is an extremely rough selenite. I've never seen one so pink/orange, so I thought I'd share!

Keep in mind this book is very old, and diamond is no longer the hardest mineral we know.

#talc #gypsum #selenite #calcite #blue calcite #fluorite #apatite #orthoclase #quartz #topaz #corundum #diamond #mohs scale #1000 facts #magpie #rocks #crystals #gemstones #minerals

💎 Reminder 💎

« The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is qualitative ordinal scale characterising scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material. »

While Mohs scale is useful to identify crystals and minerals with a hardness kit, it has nothing to do with water solubility and it won’t tell you if your elixir is toxic. It will just tell you what specimen can scratch what other specimen. Not break, not dissolve, scratch.

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Tangled Mohs Scale

Varian’s Amber

Rapunzel’s New Hair

Shadow Blade

Black Rocks

Diamonds

We have the relative hardnesses of the various substances we have seen up to the end of Season 2 of Tangled the Series:

The Amber is harder then the Hair (Secret of the Sundrop).

The Hair can’t be cut by the Shadow Blade (Beyond the Corona Walls).

The Black Rocks can be cut by the Shadow Blade (Secret of the Sundrop).

I added the Diamonds because Varian, as an alchemist, would know about the hardness of diamond and would have tried that somehow and it would have failed so he went to the Flower and finally the Hair.

#tangled the series #rapunzel's tangled adventure #mohs scale

Kyanite

Back in college I was pretty good at identifying minerals, but there was this one that was super easy to identify, because of its color and elongated, columnar crystals and I wanted very much to have a sample for myself: kyanite. Today, I still consider this mineral to be unusually pretty and very interesting.

This pretty mineral was named in 1789 by Abraham Gottlieb Werner and its name comes from the greek word cyanos, which means “deep blue” or “dark blue”. Kyanite is also known as disthene or cyanite, a French spelling that was used by most mineralogists between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Kyanite is a silicate mineral, usually blue (although we can find white, light gray or green specimens and other even rarer colors) and is most commonly found in metamorphic rocks, but can also be found in sedimentary ones. When it is present in metamorphic rocks, this means that the conditions that created kyanite included high pressure, most likely above 4 kilobars.

Kyanite is part of the aluminosilicate series, which also includes andalusite and silimanite. These three minerals are polymorphs (they have the same chemical formula, but the conditions of temperature and pressure are different for each). Andalusite forms at low pressure and silimanite at high temperature.

Something interesting about kyanite is that is is the most well-known anisotropic mineral there is - this means that this mineral’s hardness varies, depending on the angle: kyanite’s vertical hardness varies from 4 to 5 in the Mohs scale while it ranges from 6 to 7 if we consider the horizontal hardness.

This mineral so unfamiliar to many has severals uses in products of our daily lives. An important use is in refractory and ceramic products, such as dishware and bathroom fixtures. Kyanite is also present in products used in railroad and automotive industries due to its resistance to heat.

Since kyanite is such a lovely and interesting mineral, it is also used as a semiprecious gemstone. Even though kyanite is challenging to cut (because of the two different hardnesses), a skilled cutter can obtain aesthetic faceted stones or cabochons (shaped and polished gemstones with a convex face on one side and the other is flat) from high quality kyanite specimens.

It is true that it is not that easy to find kyanite in a jewelry store, but you may be lucky enough to find a specimen in an artisan jewelry store, for example. As I mentioned in the beggining, I wanted to have a specimen and a few years ago my dad brought me a humble but pretty sample from Brazil (without even knowing that I liked this mineral!). Lucky me.

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