Cat's Eye Fiber Optic Glass Egg 1"
Product Code: 1633
Our Price: $6.00
Description
Cat's Eye is a manmade, synthetic glass gemstone material; however, it didn't start out that way. It's a by-product of a material manufactured for the telecommunications industry- photo optics glass.
Tiny hair-like strands of pure glass are drawn from glass rods by a high tech, fiber drawing tower. Some of the glass fibers are more than a mile long and are wound onto spools. The strands are used in telecommunications to make photo optic cable that transmits light signals at the speed of light over long distances.
Thousands of these hair-sized strands are pressed together under heat and pressure to form thick plates of fiber optic glass. Lapidary artists use this special chatoyant glass to cut and polish beautiful eggs, spheres, beads, jewelry, and art objects.
Cat's Eye eggs display chatoyancy, a property in some rocks and minerals where a luminous streak appears long-ways across the mineral.
1" Long, egg shaped. Colors vary.
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