The property about Agate which will attract you the
most is its multiplicity of colors in a single piece of stone. It is a variety
of silica that is cryptocrystalline in nature. It was first discovered on along
the shore of River Achates (a river found in present day Sicily). The gemstone
mainly has band formation in it and the colors vary widely white, black, grey,
light blue, orange, and red. Also, there are several of its kinds under this
broad category like moss agate, enhydro agate etc.
Physical Features:Chemical | SiO2 |
Color | White to grey, light blue, orange to red, black. banded |
Crystal Habit | Cryptocrystalline silica |
Crystal System | Hexagonal-R; 32 (trigonal-trapezohedral) |
Cleavage | None |
Fracture | Conchoidal with very sharp edges. |
Hardness | 6.5–7 Mohs scale |
Luster | Vitreous |
Streak | White |
Transparency | Translucent |
Specific gravity | 2.58–2.64 |
Refractive index | 1.530–1.540 |
Birefringence | up to +0.004 (B-G) |
Its healing powers have been enlisted below:
1. If
you face a trouble in proper synchronization of your body, mind, and soul then
you should obviously consider wearing agate.
2. It
has the immensely superior power to transform any sort of negative energy into
positivity.
3. In
times of despair or stress, it calms the mind, eases out the tension or the
anger and instills the feeling of safety and security within you.
4. Physically
it also exhibits certain characteristics, for instance, it is advisable to wear
agate to people facing troubles related to lungs, eyes, stomach, uterus,
lymphatic system or pancreas.
5. Skin
disorders can be really discomforting. Agate also heals several of skin
disorders.
6. People
wanting desperately to quit smoking often take the aid of agate which brings in
them the positive energy to abstain from bad habits that actually affects their
health.
7. Many
of the people are often lost in their lives, neither are they sure about their
ambition nor the right way to achieve them. Here, this gemstone comes as a
pathfinder.
8. Theres
hardly any close competition to agate when it comes to the power of warding off
evil powers or curses.
9. Those
who are suffering from problems of the reproductive system, they should wear
agate to eliminate such issues.
Agate is quite popular a gemstone which is found both
in online and in various offline stores.