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Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone Optical Properties


Chrysanthemum Stone and Tigers Eye Optical Properties


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Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone Optic Character

Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone optical properties play a significant role while distinguishing these gemstones from each other. These properties are influenced by the Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone Physical Properties like crystallographic symmetry, pleochroism,etc. in the crystal. Some of the optical properties are refractive index, luster, optic character, pleochroism etc. Prominent among these is Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone optic character. You might have noticed your gemologist rotating the gemstone while testing it. Rotating a gemstone along its optic axis helps in determining its optic character.

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Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone Transparency

Similar to their colors, Tigers Eye and Chrysanthemum Stone transparency can also be used as criteria for their primary identification. Although transparency cannot be the only criteria for gemstone identification, it can efficiently used in gemstone grading. Talking about their transparency, Tigers Eye is Opaque while Tigers Eye is Opaque in appearance.

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