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Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre.As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.
It was first described in Namibia in 1962 [2] and was discovered in Xichuan - in the Henan Province of China - in 1966. [3] Pietersite is often inaccurately described as a brecciated form of tiger's-eye or hawk's-eye, due to the brecciated texture containing chatoyant material. However, while they are similar mineralogically, pietersite is not ...
Tiger's eye Tiger's eye. In gemology, chatoyancy (/ ʃ ə ˈ t ɔɪ. ən s i / shə-TOY-ən-see), also called chatoyance or the cat's eye effect, [1] is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones, woods, and carbon fiber. Coined from the French œil de chat, meaning 'cat's eye'. The chatoyant effect is typically characterized by ...
Agate was discovered in Sicily by the Greek scholar Theophrastus in 350 BC. At the time, Sicily was a colony of ancient Greece . The name "agate" comes from the Achates River, the Greek name for what is now known as the Dirillo River .
The Hoxne Hoard (/ ˈ h ɒ k s ən / HOK-sən) [2] is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, [3] and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire. [4]
Tan France didn’t expect to leave his famous pompadour behind in 2024, but he did.. The British fashion expert and Queer Eye star, 41, may be known for his coiffed salt-and-pepper updo, but he ...
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes.
The Tiger's Eye: A Jungle Fairy Tale is a short story by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. The story was unpublished in its own era, but has attracted significant attention since its belated publication in 1962.