{"id":24053,"date":"2021-02-01T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platearjewels.com\/?p=24053"},"modified":"2021-02-01T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:42:08","slug":"australian-opal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/australian-opal\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Opal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Australian Opal<\/strong> are made of thin slices of fine quality glued to backing pieces of <strong>black patch,<\/strong> glass or Queensland ironstone, thus resembling natural black opal or&nbsp; Queensland boulder opal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Color<\/u><\/strong>-: Blue, Violet and Indigo with play of colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Hardness<\/u><\/strong>-: 5.5 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Birthstone<\/u><\/strong>-: October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Transparency<\/u><\/strong> -: Opaque to semi-transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Pattern<\/u><\/strong>-: Flash fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Occurrence<\/u><\/strong>-: Australia, USA, Brazil, Mexico and Southern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Enhancements<\/u><\/strong>-: Opal is rarely impregnated with colorless oil, wax and resins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Cleaning<\/u><\/strong>-:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wiped with a damp soft cloth and mild detergent, but should never be soaked or immersed.<\/li><li>Avoid bleach, Chemicals, cleaners and ultrasonic cleaners.<\/li><\/ul>\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>Stone of protection, faithfulness and &nbsp;loyalty.<\/li><li>Able to absorb thoughts and feelings, to enhance them and send them back to the source.<\/li><li>Used to provoke fear of the \u201cEvil Eye\u201d.<\/li><li>Integrate energy, as well as proper programming, cleaning and charging.<\/li><li>Useful in dealing with problems of the digestive organs and it can stimulate the proper functioning of the stomach.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Opal are made of thin slices of fine quality glued to backing pieces of black patch, glass or Queensland ironstone, thus resembling natural black opal or&nbsp; Queensland boulder opal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24053","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\/24053","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=24053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24074,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions\/24074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}