The birthstone for the month of November, and the official stone for the ‘Lone Star’ state of Texas, Topaz is the most up to date and often used precious stone today. It’s a natural stone that comes in a selection of different shades, including blue, amber, red, pink, orange, beige, brown and clear. Though not its most classic natural color, blue topaz is its most well liked shade.
Arecently discovered radiation process that permits one to color clear topaz different shades of blue has permitted for the established use and approval of blue topaz. Blue topaz is the birthstone for December. There was a trend in jewellery to apply certain impurities, for instance titanium oxide, to the stone surface, giving it a nearly emerald green color.
Though blue topaz and these more modern green colours of the stone are the hottest, itis the red and orange shades of topaz that are the most rare and most valuable. It’s commonest natural color is yellow, and for a long while in the Middle Ages topaz was simply the name for any yellowish gem. In traditional Egypt, topaz was thought to contain the glow and power of ‘Ra’ the god of the sun, and any jewelry made with the stone was thought to convey divine protection on its wearer. The Romans had amatching belief, associating the gemstone with their own sun god ‘Jupiter’. Before them, normal Greeks thought the stone could imbue its owner with great strength, and make him invisible during periods of danger. Many individuals today still think the stone holds magical powers,eg the power to heal asthma, cure poisons, correct for poor vision and ease sleeplessness.
Topaz has had new powers connected with it through history than any other dear stone. The name topaz comes from the Greek work ‘topazos’, that suggests ‘to seek’. Topazos was an island underwater Sea that was extraordinarily difficult to find and contained a valuable source of minerals mined in traditional times. The yellowish stones mined from Topazos are now claimed to be a different mineral than topaz. The gem itself is a clear silicate of the elements aluminum and fluorine.