What My Favorite Topaz Ring Is Made Of

What my favorite topaz ring is made of

Not long after I started collecting gemstones, I came across a topaz ring that just called out my name. This topaz ring has been my favorite jewelry for nearly a decade—mainly because I have a fondness for topaz.

My topaz ring boasts a beautiful topaz, one of the most common gemstones used centuries in jewelry. A topaz has a golden brown to yellow color that can be often confused with the less valuable citrine—but it’s worth much more. I have even more fondness for this topaz ring golden topaz is the November birthstone, although it’s not the only topaz color.

There is also Blue Topaz, which is sometimes an acceptable alternate birthstone for December and can sometimes be mistaken for aquamarine. This topaz also makes a brilliant topaz ring, although it’s often confused as

More about what a topaz ring is made of. Topaz is the hardest structure, and its physical makeup is a chain like structure of connected irregular octahedrons that have an aluminum substance in the middle of it, surrounded by four oxygens. Above and below the aluminum are the hydroxide or fluoride ions. The chains of octahedrons are held together by individual silicate tetrahedrons. However it’s the chain of octahedron chains that give topaz its crystalline shape. And make it shine as a part of a topaz ring.

Topaz can be granular and massive. Topaz crystals can reach the incredible size of several hundred pounds. Topaz can make very attractive mineral specimens due to their high luster, nice colors and well-formed and multifaceted crystals. The habits of these crystals include a prismatic crystal with usually two different prisms that produce a rounded or sharp diamond-shaped cross-section. Another dome can modify the termination producing a point at the juncture of the two domes. A basal pinacoid can flatten the prisms termination or truncate the top of the domes.

By: Wilfred Ishida

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