Description
The soft-looking, pearly white sheen of the moon gives this stone its name. High quality moonstones are cut and polished, giving them a glassy, water-like glow and making them a popular stone for jewelry. Moonstone's sheen is called adularescene.
High gem-quality genuine Moonstone is quite expensive. In nature moon is classified as an orthoclase feldspar and is made of potassium aluminum silicate: KA1Si308. Genuine Moonstone is an igneous rock and a constituent of aplite, a type of granite. Tabular crystals of moonstone are found embedded in the volcanic rock.
This Synthetic Moonstone collector rock is man-made in a laboratory. Synthetic Moonstone replicates the appearance of high-quality, expensive gem quality Moonstone
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