The Big Five Gemstone
The Big Five gemstones are Diamond, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, and Tanzanite. 🤍💙💚❤️💜
Gemstones which are highly valuable for their hardness and rarity, are known as Precious Stones. Precious Stones are generally expensive in comparison to Semi-Precious Stones. 🪨
Their mind-numbing brilliance and show-stopping sparkle make them the center-stage delight!💎
However, over the years, the stones have not only been worn and flaunted because they're pretty...
There are lots of symbolical gemstones' meaning that keeps them the top choice of many! 💍
#1 Diamond💎
A diamond isn't just a women's best friend, but also holds a lot of worth as most natural diamonds have ages between 1 billion and 3.5 billion years. 🪨
To determine their quality, diamonds are graded using the 4C's system: carat weight, color, clarity, and cut. 💍
Many people expect a diamond to be unbreakable. This is not true.
A diamond's crystal structure has 'hard' and 'soft' directions. A blow of sufficient force, in an exact direction, can crack, chip, split or even shatter a diamond.🔍💎🔬
#2 Tanzanite💜
Poised between lush blue, vibrant violet, and rich purple, exotic tanzanite is found in only one place on earth, near majestic Mount Kilimanjaro! 🏔
Found in 1967 by @tiffanyandco, tanzanite is a relatively new stone compared to other precious gemstones that have been discovered for thousands of years... 🕰
When a new, previously unknown gemstone enters the market, every person who sells and buys must be educated before transactions can occur.
Tiffany & Co. prepared educational materials that would make consumers aware of the gem, and they prepared materials to help jewelers understand it, market it, and explain its characteristics to their customers. 🏜📘
The size of a tanzanite gem influences its color. 🪨
If you have two stones of equal saturation, the larger stone will have a richer apparent color - because the distance that light travels through the stone influences its perceived color!
#3 Ruby❤️
Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum, one of the hardest minerals on Earth. 🪨
Corundum is the mineral form of alumina, which crystallizes in the hexagonal system.
The red color of ruby results from a small admixture of chromic oxide.
Only red corundum is entitled to be called ruby, all other colors being classified as sapphires. ❤️💙
The most prized tint is blood red or crimson known in the trade as 'pigeon's blood' red. 🐦🟥
#4 Emerald💚
Emerald is one of the most fascinating and beautiful gemstones that has been one of the world's most popular green gemstones for over 5000 years... 💎
Emerald is a precious gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium. 🪨💚
Beryl has a hardness of 7.5–8 on the Mohs scale.
The most desirable color is slightly bluish-green in a medium-dark tone with strong to vivid saturation. 💙💚💍
Clarity is important, but inclusions are tolerated more in this variety than virtually any other gem. 🔬
#5 Sapphire💙
Sapphires are one of the hardest stones on the planet; only diamonds surpass them in hardness!🔨🪨
Sapphire is also a variety of the mineral Corundum and represents all the colors except red Corundum (which is Ruby).
Its physical and chemical properties are virtually similar to the properties of Ruby. 💙❤️
The word 'Sapphire' in its plain context refers only to blue Sapphire unless a prefix color is specified.💎
Sapphire is the most precious blue gemstone.💍
It is a most desirable gem due to its color, hardness, durability, and luster.✨✨
Source: geology.com/gemstones