Stone defined
A stone is a hard solid non-metallic mineral matter. It is a very valuable substance. We have both ordinary stones and some others that are highly precious, costly and not easily come by.
Significance of stones
Stones are used to mark boundaries of the most ancient people's properties, they set up stones as witnesses, as evidence of agreement, stones are used to describe strength and resiliency in a person's character. Also stones are used metaphorically to denote hardness, insensibility, firmness or strength.
However, the stones I am discussing here are stones of beauty per excellence. Go with me to observe these stones:
Sardius
Sardius is a precious stone that is a variety of cornelian, varying in color from pale yellow to reddish orange
Topaz
Topaz is a lustrous and brilliant gem. Topaz is of reddish pleochroic color which often appears at the ends of cut gems.
Diamond
A diamond stone is a crystalline carbon which is the hardest known mineral. It is usually nearly colorless, transparent and free from flaws. It ia highly valuable which is used industrially especially as an abrasive.
Beryl
A beryl stone is a metallic mineral composed of beryllium, and aluminium silicate.
Onyx
Onyx is a variety of chalcedony. It is a parallel banded silicate mineral and tends to be black with white banding in its most common form. It is mostly made of calcite and has a waxy luster. Onyx could also be of varieties of colour such as blue, black or green.
Black onyx
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Blue onyx
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Jasper
A Jasper stone is a an opaque, fine-grained, or dense gemstone that comes in a variety of colors. The most common color is brownish-red which comes from admixed hematite.
Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum. It consists of aluminium oxide with small quantities of other elements such as iron, titanium, cobalt, lead, chromium, vanadium, magnesium, boron and silicon.
Emerald
Emerald stone has the shade of blue green to green variety. It is a mineral species that includes aquamarine.
Carbuncle
Carbuncle stone has a shade of deep red almandine gemstone that has been cut with a smooth, convex face in a method called cabochon. It is of the species of red gemstone, most often a red garnet.
Gold
Gold is a dense, metallic, lustrous, yellow, malleable precious metal, so durable that it is virtually indestructible. It could be fashioned into different ornaments.
Chalcedony
Chalcedony has a waxy luster, and may be semitransparent or translucent. It can assume a wide range of colors, but those most commonly seen are white to gray, grayish-blue or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black
Sardonyx
Sardonyx stone is translucent, light- to dark-brown varieties of the silica mineral chalcedony, historically two of the most widely used semiprecious stones.
Chrysolite
Chrysolite stone is a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine.
Chrysoprasus
Chrysoprasus stoneis a gemstone variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of silica that contains small quantities of nickel. Its colour is normally apple-green, to deep green.
Jacinth
Jacinth, also called hyacinth is a yellow-red to red-brown variety of zircon used as a gemstone.
Amethyst
Amethyst stone is the purple variety of the quartz mineral species. Its purple color can be cool and bluish, or a reddish purple that's sometimes referred to as raspberry.
Thanks for going through this piece. @Pastormike
i love the reflective color on jasper
Thanks for the response