Blue Cat S Eye Tourmaline

Cat s eye tourmaline is rare variety of tourmaline which exhibits a unique reflection of light that resembles the slit eye of a cat.

Blue cat s eye tourmaline.

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The cat s eye or chatoyancy effect is most easily seen in strong light especially in sunlight. Buy natural tourmaline in our shop. Tourmaline is a crystalline boron silicate mineral. The optical phenomenon is exceptionally rare and occurs in only a handful of gems.

Favorite add to abalone black tourmaline smaexpressions. Compounded with elements such as aluminium iron magnesium sodium lithium or potassium. Cat s eye tourmaline stones are usually found in pink and green. It is a semi precious stone.

The technical term used by gemologists to refer to a cat s eye effect is chatoyancy a term derived from the french phrase oeil de chat which means eye of the cat. From shop smaexpressions. Tourmaline with tiny parallel inclusions sometimes display a strong cat s eye effect when polished.