Lemon quartz

Lemon quartz stone crystal meaning

Lemon quartz stone crystal and lemon aura quartz meaning, often use in jewelry as ring, earrings, necklace, and pendant.

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Lemon quartz meaning

Lemon quartz obtains its brilliant sparkling color through an artificial gamma ray irradiation process followed by a mild heat treatment. Not all quartz can be made into sparkling lemon quartz. Most aluminum rich quartz will turn near black to black when irradiated, though some yellowish-brown can be used to produce the crystal if it is first heated and then irradiated.

Heat causes the material to lose its color and when it is exposed to irradiation, the yellow color returns. Also, lithium rich quartz that is exposed to very mild heat tends to turn yellowish green even without irradiation. These could be traded as both citrine or lemon quartz, since they are not irradiated.

Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

Not all varieties of quartz are naturally occurring. Some clear quartz crystals can be treated using heat or gamma-irradiation to induce color where it would not otherwise have occurred naturally. Susceptibility to such treatments depends on the location from which the quartz was mined.

Quartz belongs to the trigonal crystal system. The ideal crystal shape is a six-sided prism terminating with six sided pyramids at each end. In nature quartz crystals are often twinned, distorted, or so intergrown with adjacent crystals of quartz or other minerals as to only show part of this shape, or to lack obvious crystal faces altogether and appear massive.

Well-formed crystals typically form in a bed that has unconstrained growth into a void , usually the crystals are attached at the other end to a matrix and only one termination pyramid is present. However, doubly terminated crystals do occur where they develop freely without attachment, for instance within gypsum.

A quartz geode is such a situation where the void is approximately spherical in shape, lined with a bed of crystals pointing inward.

Lemon quartz crystal meaning and healing properties

The following section is pseudo scientific and based on cultural beliefs.

It is a gemstone that has a meaning and properties of enhancing insight. It is known as a gemstone that can broaden person’s horizons. The crystal has the power to create a new world by influencing owner’s hope. It is useful when you want to make your dreams come true or want information for success.

FAQ

What is lemon aura quartz?

Lemon aura quartz is colorless quartz that has been enhanced with platinum ions to give it a rainbow effect. The name of this treatment is “coated”. Lemon aura quartz is a coated quartz.

What is lemon quartz crystal good for?

Used in meditation, the gemstone is believed to filter out distractions, aid concentration and open memory. For those who use crystals for healing, the stone eases food and nicotine cravings, helps with diabetes and encourages healthy recovery after illness or surgery.

Is lemon quartz the same as citrine?

The only difference with citrine is in the saturation and tone of their color. Many gem dealers do not even separate the two and use the name citrine for all yellow quartz.

How do you clean lemon quartz stone?

If the crystal is to be cleaned, it is rinsed under running warm water. This is best done about every four weeks. To allow the stone to recharge, place it in a dry bowl of amethyst crystals for about eight hours. A chain of stones is loaded in a dry bowl with hematite or amethyst tumbled stones.

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