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Taurus (April 20 - May 20). Gems for Taurus - agate, alexandrite, aventurine, turquoise, amazonite, malachite, chrysocolla, cacholong. Agate (owl eye, dendrite, bastion agate, frosty agate, rainbow agate, cloudy agate, flame agate, etc) - one of the most amazing gems, is a variety of widespread quartz gemstone, gemstone jewelry. First of all, because of its specific layered structure and colored lines present ojn it ( stone lines can be concentric or linear), they sometimes creates amazing pictures. Agate is known to mankind for a long time. And at all times, this stone was appreciated by people. Moreover, according to one theory the name of stone came from Greek word "ahates", which means "happy." However, according to another theory, the name comes from the Sicilian river Ahates where for a long time were collected agates, but I think fans of this stone will prefer the first version. The color scheme of the stone is very diverse - from white and yellow to green and black. Very often the color of the strips, even in the same stone can be very different. There are, for example, stones with concentric colored strips and with a point in the center, similar to the eye (they are called - "owl eye"). In such agates, width only 1 cm can be near 7000 different layers (strips), buy gemstone beads. Of course, the naked human eye this number of layers and colors can not be seen, but these stones look very impressive and beautiful. Sometimes agate multiple layers may form tracery and even pictures. For example gem layers form pictures like forest thicket, this gemstones are very valued by the Asian population. They even invented a special name for these stones - moss agate. Agate with the layers that form tree picture is called "dendrite" or "dendritic stone" (from the Greek dendron means "tree"). Or layers picture look like appear from the fog - these stones are called "frost agates." Also, sometimes, gemstone layers form something like an old map of an fortress - this agates are named castle agate or fortification and bastions agates. Also, there are other varieties of agates - cloud, rainbow, fiery, and others. However, this is only an approximate division. After all, each tracery of each individual stone is unique. For example, the ancient Greek historian Pliny tells about agate stone, named "stone Pierre" in which tracery you could see a picture of Apollo and the nine Muses. Some varieties of agates received their individual names, not less famous - such as onyx or sardonyx.
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