{"id":23959,"date":"2021-02-01T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platearjewels.com\/?p=23959"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:53:42","slug":"alexandrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/alexandrite\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandrite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Color changing variety of <strong>Chrysoberyl<\/strong> (Color changing because of the slight impurities of <strong>chromium<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Origin<\/u><\/strong>-: Discovered in the <strong>Ural Mountains<\/strong> in <strong>1830<\/strong> on the <strong>birthday of Czar Alexander of Russia<\/strong>, it makes hues change from <strong>green to red<\/strong>, which happens to be <strong>Russians imperial colors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Color<\/u><\/strong>-:&nbsp; Blue, Grey, Green, Pink, Purple, Red, Violet, White, Yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The color of Alexandrite changes under different lighting conditions-:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If viewed in <strong>daylight<\/strong>, its color is <strong>greenish blue<\/strong> to <strong>dark yellow-green. <\/strong><\/li><li>If viewed in <strong>incandescent or candle light<\/strong>, its color is <strong>pink to red.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Luster-:<\/u><\/strong> Vitreous to greasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Hardness<\/u><\/strong>-: 8.5 on the Mohs scale with an orthorhombic crystal structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Transparency<\/u><\/strong>-: Transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Astrological Sign<\/u><\/strong>-: Scorpio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Birthstone<\/u><\/strong>-: June<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>False Names<\/u><\/strong>-: Alexandrine, Alexandrite Sapphire, Alexandrite Garnet, Blue Alexandrite, Czochralski Alexandrite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Occurrence<\/u><\/strong>: Russia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Tanzania, and Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Metaphysical Properties<\/u><\/strong>-:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intensifies dreams and brings luck in love.<\/li><li>Regenerate powers, courage, allowing one to face change with no fears.<\/li><li>Assists in centring self, reinforcing self-esteem and enhancing the ability to experience joy and beauty<\/li><li>Used to reduce inflammation, ease tension\/stress and work with the pulmonary and circulatory systems.<\/li><li>It also helps with inner-ear problems and helps to alleviate motion-sickness.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Note<\/u><\/strong>-: Most synthetic Alexandrite is in fact synthetic Corundum or synthetic Spinel with added vanadium or chromium to induce the color-change habit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color changing variety of Chrysoberyl (Color changing because of the slight impurities of chromium).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24045,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions\/24045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}