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  2. Chrysoberyl - Wikipedia

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    An alexandrite cat's eye is a chrysoberyl cat's eye that changes color. "Milk and honey" is a term commonly used to describe the color of the best cat's eyes. The effect refers to the sharp milky ray of white light normally crossing the cabochon as a center line along its length and overlying the honey-colored background.

  3. Chatoyancy - Wikipedia

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    Chatoyancy is caused by either the presence of fibrous structures within the material, such as in tiger's eye quartz, or by fibrous inclusions and cavities, as seen in cat's eye chrysoberyl. In cat's eye chrysoberyl, the chatoyant effect is caused by the presence of rutile, composed mostly of titanium dioxide, which aligns perpendicularly to ...

  4. Synthetic alexandrite - Wikipedia

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    Their inclusions of undissolved flux can look like inclusions in natural chrysoberyl. However, layers of dust-like particles parallel to the seed plate, and strong banding or growth lines may also be apparent. [a] The Inamori synthetic alexandrite had a cat's eye variety, which showed a distinct color change. The eye was broad and of moderate ...

  5. Cat's eye - Wikipedia

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    Cat eye glasses, a style of horn-rimmed glasses designed for women; Cat's eye (toy), a kind of toy marble; Cat's Eye (cocktail), a gin-based cocktail; Cat's eye (road), a type of road marker using retroreflectors; Cat eye tube, an electron tube used as a visual indicator

  6. Category:Metaphysical properties - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Metaphysical properties" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *

  7. Talk:Chrysoberyl - Wikipedia

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    Chrysoberyl is a mineral consisting of ordinary colorless or yellow transparent chrysoberyl, cymophane (chrysoberyl cat´s eye), and alexandrite. Ordinary chrysoberyl is a yellowish-green, transparent to translucent chrysoberyl. Ordinary chrysoberyl has often been referred to in the literature as chrysolite due to the common olive color of many ...

  8. Tiger's eye - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Sapphire - Wikipedia

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    The inclusions can alternatively produce a cat's eye effect if the girdle plane of the cabochon is oriented parallel to the crystal's c-axis rather than perpendicular to it. To get a cat's eye, the planes of exsolved inclusions must be extremely uniform and tightly packed.