Turquoise

Chemical Formula: CuAl6 (PO4)4 (OH)8.4H2O English Name (UK, USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand): Turquoise Family: Hydrated Phosphate

GENERAL DATA

In Manufacturing: Pharmaceutical and jewelry

💠 Industries That Use Turquoise Gemstone (Rough, Raw, or Polished)

Scientific name: Hydrated Copper Aluminum Phosphate (CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O)
Main varieties: Persian Turquoise, Egyptian Turquoise, American (Sleeping Beauty, Bisbee), Chinese Turquoise

1. Jewelry & Luxury Goods Industry

Turquoise is one of the oldest gemstones used in fine jewelry, renowned for its vibrant blue to green hues, symbolic value, and natural veining (matrix).

Applications:

• Rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets

• Inlay in silver and gold jewelry (especially in Persian and Southwestern American styles)

• Beads, pendants, and luxury amulets

✅ Persian turquoise from Neyshabur is prized for its sky-blue color and matrix-free quality.

2. Cultural & Ethnic Artifacts Industry

Used historically in ceremonial artifacts, religious amulets, and tribal adornments.

Common in:

• Persian, Native American, Tibetan, and Central Asian crafts

• Turquoise-inlaid daggers, talismans, prayer beads, and statues

✅ Seen as a stone of protection, wisdom, and status

3. Gemstone & Mineral Trade / Lapidary Industry

Rough and raw turquoise is processed, cut, stabilized, or polished in lapidary workshops.

Key uses:

• Cabochons and carvings

• Slabs and tumbled stones for collectors

• Matrix-style display specimens

✅ Stabilized turquoise is more durable and widely used in commercial trade

4. Metaphysical & Holistic Wellness Industry

Turquoise is considered a healing stone in crystal therapy and energy work.

Believed benefits:

• Enhances communication and emotional balance

• Protects against negative energy and electromagnetic stress

• Strengthens immunity and detoxification in metaphysical systems

✅ Often used in chakra balancing, meditation jewelry, and room clearing rituals

5. Interior Design & Decorative Arts

Turquoise is incorporated into luxury decorative elements, especially in Persian, Moroccan, and Bohemian aesthetics.

Applications include:

• Mosaic tiles, tabletops, and wall inlays

• Decorative bowls, vases, and sculpture bases

• Embedded into furniture or mirror frames

✅ Raw turquoise stones are also used in feng shui arrangements

6. Academic & Geological Research

Turquoise is analyzed in mineralogical studies, especially in:

• Geochemistry and gemstone formation research

• Comparative matrix analysis for provenance studies (e.g., Persian vs. Chinese origin)

• Conservation of ancient turquoise artifacts

✅ Often part of museum displays and archaeological documentation

✅ Summary of Key Applications

🌍 Key Features of Turquoise Gemstone:

• Color: Sky-blue (Iranian), greenish-blue (Tibetan/American), apple-green (rare)

• Hardness: 5–6 on Mohs scale (requires care and stabilization)

• Texture: Opaque with or without matrix (black, brown, golden veining)

• Geographic Origins: Iran, USA, China, Egypt, Afghanistan, Chile

• Symbolism: Protection, truth, success, serenity

💎 Comparison Table: Turquoise vs Agate vs Ruby vs Emerald

🔷 Summary Insights:

• Turquoise: Revered in Iranian and Native American heritage. Known for its spiritual value, protection against evil, and vivid sky-blue hue.

• Agate: Valued for its grounding energy, variety of patterns/colors, and carvable nature. Less precious but culturally rich.

• Ruby: A precious gemstone, globally associated with power, passion, and nobility. One of the rarest and most expensive.

• Emerald: Symbol of eternal life and rebirth, highly valued in Persian, Egyptian, and Western royal traditions.

PRODUCT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES Persian Name: فیروزه/ Firoozeh German Name (Deutschland, Austria, Switzerland): Türkis, Türkis Stein French Name (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec): Turquoise

 

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About Turquoise

It is a type of mineral that belongs to the group of phosphates and is considered as an ornamental stone.

The crystal structure of this stone is triclinic, and it often appears as a concentration of small, swollen, and spherical pieces or relatively large masses or in the shape of grape clusters, as well as cauliflower-like masses, or streaks among other stones. This mineral is more porous.

It is often blue or bluish green and sometimes sky blue. But its powder is white. This mineral is opaque and has a waxy luster.

The degree of hardness of it is 5 to 6 and its density is 2.6 to 2.8. This mineral does not have cleavage.

The best of this stone is coarse, pure and old. Almost all Turquoises are found in volcanic areas, and the best type of this gemstone is found near the surface of the earth. This stone must be completely dry to be strong. The stone of deeper mines are softened by the acid produced by groundwater particles. Persian Turquoise is one of the best in the world and Turquoise mines in Iran are among the first mines of this stone. This stone is called “the stone of power” that helps clear the mind.

Native Americans believed that this stone protects the person who rides the horse and protects it from the evil eye in general. It was called the stone of sky or heaven and they believed that this stone builds a spiritual bridge between the material and non-material worlds and gives its owner a powerful psychic ability.

How To Maintain Turquoise The color of this stone when purchased is soft and bright blue, but the color may change depending on the owner’s maintenance. If this stone is in contact with fat and detergents, it will change its color to green, and after a while, its properties will be completely lost and it will die, so to speak. But if the same stone is away from grease and detergents and is regularly in contact with water, its blue color will become more intense, and in one to three years, its value will be multiplied by the constant stabilization of its blue color.

Turquoise Temperament

First degree of cold and third degree of dry.

 

Turquoise Chemical Constituent

In fact, this stone is base phosphate and aqueous of copper and aluminum.

 

Turquoise Health Benefits It is used as an antidote to poisons and to strengthen the brain, heart and eyes. Eating 1.2 gram of its powder is an antidote to poisons. Eating 0.8 gram of its powder will cure a scorpion sting. Applying it to the eyes is a tonic for the eyes and removes excess moisture from the eyes, improves watery eyes, white spots, night blindness and eye swelling due to trauma. Looking at this stone for a long time strengthens the eyes.

Eating the calcination of it with honey removes kidney and bladder stones and cures epilepsy and splenomegaly. Eating this stone with the right spices is a tonic for the heart and stomach and helps to relieve suffocation, diarrhea, all kinds of internal wounds and infectious wounds.

 

Turquoise Side Effects

It is harmful for kidney.

 

Turquoise Dose

1.2 gram.

 

Turquoise Modifiers

Gum Tragacanth.

 

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