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Espessially Aquamarine

Aquamarine is the blue to the variety that is blue-green of Beryl, a Beryllium Aluminum Silicate with the general chemical formula Be₃Al₂(Si₁₆O₁₈). The crystall cells of Aquamarine and all Beryls, are regular hexagonal rings located one above the other, forming hollow channels. Aquamarine retained the name given by Pliny the Elder, who noted that the most valuable of Beryls are those, whose color resembles the pure green of sea waters (from Latin aqua - water, mare - sea).
Aquamarine ranges in color from a faint light blue to blue and bluish-green, with lighter colored stones being the more common type. Light green Beryl can be transformed into Aquamarine if heated to 750º F (400º C). The green hues in most Aquamarine can also be removed through heat treatment. Aquamarine gets its blue-green colour from traces of ferrous iron added to the Beryl that is a basic formula.

Very large Aquamarine crystals have now been found including the Martha that is famous Rocha, found in Brazil, that weighed 134 pounds and yielded 300,000 carats of exemplary blue gems!

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