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	Topaz Part 1 by Stephanie Pflumm
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When the Greek scholar Pliny wrote that Topaz gave man strength and protected him from poison, he might have actually been writing about Citrine. The huge (weighs 1,680 carats) Portuguese crown jewel, the Braganza, is a beautiful clear Topaz was thought for a few centuries, to be a diamond.

Even the origins of the name Topaz stirs confusion. Some references point to a Sanskrit word tapas, that means Fire. Or was it named for Zebirget, an island in the Red Sea that the Greeks once called Tapazius? Except that Peridot is the gem currently mined on the island.

Today's scholars write with a higher degree certainty on the properties and origins of the Topaz crystal. Aluminum, silicate (Quartz), fluoride and hydroxide molecules were bonded together during volcanic eruptions.

Left to cool in pegmatite's and granitites for thousands of year, the aluminum bonding with the oxygen (hydroxide) formed a chain of connected octahedrons, held together by silicate tetrahedrons, that sometimes grew into gigantic crystals.

One of the largest Topaz ever found was a 600 pound specimen in Brazil. You can see it today at the Museum of Natural History in New York. A rare, perfect blue gemstone was discovered in the Ural Mountains of Russia in 1965. It weighed 100 kilograms. In Norway, a 137 pound crystal was found in 1901 that was two feet long.

Its unique crystal structure makes Topaz a hard and dense gemstone. In fact, pure clear Topaz has often been mistaken for Diamond because of their similar density, clarity and hardness. Topaz crystals can terminate in a variety of ways, some are dome-shapped, pyramids, prismatic, tabular and often with striations.

Its crystalline formation also allows the gem to hold an electric charge for up to 30 hours. You can charge a Topaz by rubbing it with your fingers. Some Brazilian stones acquire a charge just by holding the ends of the crystal between your fingertips. Heating the gem then allowing it to cool slowly builds an electrified charge greater than any achieved with other stones. Plus the stone will retain that energy for more than a day after cooling down.

Most Topaz is found in its purest form, clear. Sometimes referred to as silver or white Topaz. Blue and green are the rarest colors. Most commercial blue Topaz are clear crystals that have been irradiated then heat treated to create the color.

Stephanie Pflumm is the editor and publisher of the monthly ezine ORE FEATURES. Each issue uncovers the geology, magical history and healing features of a different stone. Pflumm also owns the website Ozark Rock Exchange

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