Warm and beautiful tiger eye jewelry
Tiger eye needs JiaoZhu and stone in sterling silver jewelry increased over the years, never ratio has been receiver. In fact, tiger eye or tiger’s eye and know the same, it is one of the most popular opaque gems in the world of fashion jewelry today. Different shapes and sizes of bead string of golden gems for silver pendants, necklace and many other dazzling piece artificial jewelry in the market today. When you observe this beautiful stone, it is not difficult for us to understand its popularity in fashion jewelry design today. Warm and rich color of stone and the fact that it is relatively inexpensive is the main factor in action, its popularity, the great demand on the stone, the jewelry market all over the world.
An important characteristic of tiger’s eye is its chatoyancy. Although tiger’s eye is a kind of quartz, quartz crystals are so small that they can’t be seen under low to moderate magnification, not to mention the naked eye. Therefore, tiger’s eye is called microcrystalline forms of quartz. Specimen usually contains tiger intraocular crocilodite fiber quartz matrix. Chemical fiber hydration iron oxide and appeared in the stone in the vertical luminous band. It is this existence crocilodite fiber, reason chatoyancy display tiger’s eye, makes it unique look similar to the cat’s eyes. Because the tiger’s eye is a kind of quartz, its physical properties closely mimic those of quartz crystal, hardness is 7 and proportion of plus 2.67. South Africa and Australia is famous by the high quality of the specimen tiger eye found here. Burma, Brazil, Canada, China, India, namibia, the United States of America recognized produce other tiger’s eye, although some smaller quality. New requirements to this stone, jewelers have resorted to create artificial fiber glass specimens. Use this material in fashion jewelry is perfectly acceptable as long as the seller candid origin that stone. The problem arises when the seller trying to steal a creative specimen is very natural stone. Fortunately, man-made version is a tiger eye also easily through visual inspection. You need to be aware that sometimes tiger eye specimens to change the color of high heat, stone, dark red. In most cases, this change in color is irreversible.