APPLICATIONS: | Mineral Specimen. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: | Taurus and Libra. |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | SiO2, Silicon Dioxide. |
CLASS: | Tectosilicate. |
CLEAVAGE: | None. |
COLOR: | Pale-pink to rose-red. |
CRYSTAL HABITS: | Usually massive with occaisional contact crystal faces, occurs rarely as small horizontally striated hexagonal prisms terminated by a combination of positive and negative rhombohedrons forming six sided pyramids. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Hexagonal-Rhombohedral; 32 (trigonal-trapezohedral). |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Masses, druses, granular structures, grains, veins and crystal structures.XXX |
FRACTURE: | Conchoidal. |
GEOGRAPHY: | India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. |
HARDNESS: | 7. |
INDEX OF REFRACTION: | 1.54-1.55. |
LUSTER: | Vitreous. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Rose Quartz emits a calming energy, which can to remove negativity and reinstate loving and gentle forces of self-love on all of the chakras. Provides calmness, clarity and restores the mind to harmony after chaotic or crisis situations. It is known as the "stone of gentle love", bringing peacefulness and calm to relationships. It enables one for reciptivity of art, music and written word. It stimulates imagination, representing warm and young love. It provides balancing of the Yin-Yang energy and can tune each chakra with the proper frequency of energy vibration. Rose Quartz is quite effective in treating conditions that are related to the emotional body and balancing the emotion "Love" in the upper four chakras (heart, throat, brow and crown). It works extremly well in healing emotional wounds. |
PHYSICAL: | It can be used in the treatment of clearing the impure fluids in the cells of the body, stress, tension, vertigo, kidneys, adrenal glands, wrinkles, pain, heart, coughs, bronchial, lungs, blisters and burns. |
PLEOCHROISM: | Weak. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 2.65. |
STREAK: | White. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Opaque to translucent, rarely transparent. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 7. |
