Smokey Quartz
Smokey Quartz
This piece of smokey quartz has one large well defined point and is deep smokey in colour.
Star/Zodiac Signs: Capricorn, (Dec 22-Jan 19) Sagittarius, (Nov 22-Dec 21).
Chakra: Base, (1st).
Vibrates to the numbers 2 and 8
Key words:
Higher awareness, instinct, clarity, transformation, intuition. Calmness.
A good crystal for relieving stress smoky quartz helps stabilise ones internal state and can be used to help to move away from negative feelings such as anger, resentment and fearfulness towards more positive approaches to ones life. In so doing smoky quartz helps bring one comfort and inner calmness. In particular, smoky quartz is thought to aid instinctual senses.
Self preservation, encourage mental clarity, aid higher consciousness during meditation and support the use of ones own intuitive capacities. Physically, Smoky quartz is said to increase fertility, to help remove toxins from the body and to aid the proper functioning of the kidneys, adrenals, pancreas and sex organs.
Physical Characteristics:
Smoky quartz can be recognized by its crystal habit, transparency, hardness, glassy lustre, colour, conchoidal fracture, occurrence and general lack of cleavage.
chemical composition: SiO2:
Quartz contains approximately %47.7 silicon and %53.3oxygen.
Class: tectosilicate; Crystal system: Hexagonal-Rhombohedral; (trigonal-trapezohedral) ...
• Specific gravity: 2.65
• Index of refraction: 1.54-1.55
Birefringence: maximum of 0.009
• Pleochroism: distinct
• Hardness: 7
• Colour: brown to grey to black
• Lustre: vitreous
• Transparency: transparent
• Cleavage: none
• Fracture: conchoidal
• Streak: white
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