Entry № 157
Girasol Quartz
Blue Opalescent Quartz
A milky quartz that turns on a soft blue glow.
Chakra
Throat · Heart
Element
Water
Zodiac
Cancer · Pisces
I. The Metaphysical Reading
How the stone has been held.
Girasol quartz is worked with as a stone of tender expression, kept close during heartfelt conversations, prayer and any practice that speaks the truth gently. Practitioners hold it as a reminder that a soft glow carries as far as a bright one.
- Chakra
- Throat · Heart
- Element
- Water
- Zodiac
- Cancer · Pisces
- Keynote
- A milky quartz that turns on a soft blue glow.
II. The Scientific Reading
What the lattice actually does.
Girasol quartz is a semi-translucent variety of quartz whose milky adularescent glow arises from the scattering of light by microscopic inclusions of water and gas within the silica lattice. It is optically distinct from moonstone (an adularia feldspar) despite the visual similarity of the two effects.
- Formula
- SiO₂
- System
- Trigonal
- Hardness
- 7 (Mohs)
- Provenance
- Madagascar, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka
References & Sources
Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.
Mineral Profile
Fact Sheet
- Chemical Formula
- SiO₂
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Mohs Hardness
- 7 (Mohs)
- Density
- 2.65 g/cm³
- Refractive Index
- 1.544 – 1.553
- Provenance
- Madagascar, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka
- Color Origin
- Milky translucent quartz with a floating blue-white sheen (adularescence)
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
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Glacier Quartz
A quartz point that looks like it was cut from a glacier.
