{"id":24089,"date":"2021-02-01T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platearjewels.com\/?p=24089"},"modified":"2021-02-24T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:59:10","slug":"green-amethyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/green-amethyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Amethyst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Green Amethyst<\/strong> (also known as \u2018<strong>prasiolite<\/strong>\u2019) is the trade name for green quartz which has been created by the heat treatment of amethyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Origin<\/u><\/strong>-: The name <strong>Prasiolite<\/strong>, comes from the Greek word meaning \u2018<strong>leek<\/strong>\u2019\u2026as its color resembles that plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Color<\/u><\/strong>-: Green<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Hardness<\/u><\/strong>-: 7 on the Mohs scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Birthstone<\/u><\/strong>-: February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Occurrence<\/u><\/strong>-: Brazil, Zimbabwe, Arizona and mines where California borders Nevada also contain the right variety of Amethyst.<\/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>Heals by closing the gap between the physical &amp; spiritual.<\/li><li>Attracts prosperity.<\/li><li>Strengthens the emotions, the mind and the will.<\/li><li>Protects the wearer from intoxication.<\/li><li>Brings good fortune and luck.<\/li><li>Favored by members of royalty and high social standing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Care &amp; Cleaning-:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When cleaning green amethyst one should use running water and soft brush.<\/li><li>No chemical means are needed.<\/li><li>The only thing one should be careful with is not to expose the prasiolite jewelry to heat or sunlight, as the color may change.<\/li><li>This stone can be scratched only by harder stones (7 or more on the Mohs scale), therefore it should be kept apart from other jewelry items.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Amethyst (also known as \u2018prasiolite\u2019) is the trade name for green quartz which has been created by the heat treatment of amethyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24089","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\/24089","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=24089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24136,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089\/revisions\/24136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}