Aka: White Chalcedony, White Onyx
Peace, Harmony, Purity
Spiritual Properties
- Aids meditations
- Enhances intuition
- Brings good fortune
- Attracts your spiritual team
- Connects you with spirituality
- Opens new doors and opportunities in life
- Helps you appreciate your unique connection with the universe
Mental Properties
- Opens your mind
- Stabilizes your mind
- Enhances your focus
- Aids decision making
- Improves analytical abilities
- Attracts new people into your life
- Helps you avoid harmful situations
- Brings harmony to your daily routine
- Brings a positive mindset to difficult situations
- Aids commitment problems and problems accomplishing goals
- Clears unnecessary clutter from the mind and encourages clarity
Emotional Properties
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Helps you feel more secure
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Helps you release frustrations
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Conveys feelings of mental peace
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Helps you find sources of positivity
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Purifies emotions and releases traumas
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Brings love to the heart eliminating feelings of sadness and loneliness
Kundalini Properties
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Shields you away from negative energies
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Balances feminine and masculine energies
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Helps you understand where you pull energies from
Health Benefits
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Aids dental pain
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Purifies the body
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Promotes stress relief
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Aids abdominal problems
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Helps your mental functions
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Improves milk flow from mother to baby
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Remedies skin conditions such as psoriasis
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Eases morning sickness and pregnancy and labor pain
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Alleviates complications and discomfort during pregnancy
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Helps the body release toxins and builds the immune system
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Protects both the mother and the baby from harm during pregnancy
Affirmations
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My emotions and my vessel are purified
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My baby and I are healthy and pain free
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My spirituality is an integral part of my life
Correspondence
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Chakras: Crown
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Energy: Projective
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Planets: Moon
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Element: Earth
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Zodiacs: Gemini
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Number: 7
Physical Properties
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Color: Milky White
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Habit: Usually as banded or layered botryoidal masses with micro-fibrous structure
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Rarity: Common
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Luster: Dull vitreous to Greasy
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Species: Chalcedony, Quartz
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Zoning: Fine banding and layers of inclusions are common
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Gravity: 2.60 - 2.65
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Fracture: Conchoidal to Splintery
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Cleavage: None
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Hardness: 6.5 to 7.0
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Twinning: None
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Locations: Oregon, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Brazil, Czech Republic, Africa, and India
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Fluorescence: None
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Pleochroism: None
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Birefringence: Weak, 0.005 to 0.009
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Transparency: Translucent, Can be Transparent or Opaque
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Named After: The river 'Achates'
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Classification: Chalcedony, Tectosilicate
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Melting point: 1,600⁰ C
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Discovered In: Around the 3rd or 4th century (BC)
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Luminescence: Inert
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Discovered By: A Greek philosopher, Theophrastus
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Chemical Name: Silicon dioxide (aka silica)
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Refractive Index: 1.54-1.55
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System/Structure: Hexagonal
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Chemical Formula: SiO2
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Inclusions (streak): White
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Chemical Classification: Silicate