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Opalo Characteristics

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One of the principal characterisctic of the Opals is that while more beautiful major his quality will be. Perhaps that´s why is name originates in the sanskrit ancient úpala, which tt means “precious stone”. The quality of the Opals is evident in the purity of his glazing, the transparece that they have, his colors, his
irradiation and the form that this one could have.

The opal is a stone catalogued with a hardness level in the place number 6 along With other gems as the esmerald

Some other important characteristics is that it will never be find two equal gems, even being inside the same stone.

In addition to having an economic value the Opal goes in yes a symbolic value since it is
considered to be representative of confidence, purity and serenity, even there is who think it helps to reach a high level of spirituality. In the middle ot fhe 19ht century and beginning of 20ht, the merchants of gems stone gave it the reputation to the opal as a bad luck stone, but all this was a strategy to avoid destroying the market of diamonds, because the opal is a stone with a big beauty and that better way of discrediting than with a bad reputation it.

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