Pink Topaz

The Gemstone Topaz is the birthstone for the month of November, the blue variety of this beautiful stone is also the anniversary stone for the fourth year of marriage.
Many variations of gentle tones are available depending on the impurities in the stone, they can vary from yellow to yellow-brown, orange, brown-pink to medium red, blue and colorless. The best sources of Topaz are Brazil, Pakistan, Russia, Afghanistan, Australia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and California to the United States.

Topaz is a transparent gemstone that often contains inclusions of gas bubbles and liquid crystals and often small, often you will find the jewel of the stage or scissors cut like the color of stones is not very bright these sections show the jewel well.
weakly colored or colorless varieties are often aspects of the brilliant cut gems to show high brilliance and offer a cheaper alternative to diamonds.
A red-orange called Sherry Topaz and apricot orange open called the Imperial Topaz join a rose with a shade of purple as the most sought after and expensive natural varieties.

Most Topaz these days are treated in a form like a real gem is quite rare.
The first is a heat treatment, usually a brown jewel is partially cut as a gem and then heated to about 450 degrees Celsius, where it completely loses its color as it is cooled slowly it began to gradually turn pink, This method is known as the clatter and is a legitimate practice as no dyes are used to create the Pink Topaz and its color is stable. Irradiation is a bit more controversial, because the world has an abundant supply of raw stones clear this method is used to transform the bluestone irradiation has been largely responsible for the abundance of blue stones on the market today that has prices down, lighter yellow and orange stones are treated this way to intensify the color, but the time may be several months or years, depending on the impurities present to allow the radioactivity to fall to a safe level. diffusion treatment involves using chemicals to contact the heat of the stone over a long period of time, it affects only the surface of the stone, the interior is unchanged creating usually green and blue-green gems color.

Legend has it that topaz dispels all enchantment and improve the sight holders, the Egyptians called the pearl was colored with the golden glow of their sun god Ra.
The ancient Romans associated topaz with Jupiter, the god of the sun rose and when Topaz was discovered in Russia that the Czar and those he has chosen to give the jewelry as a gift have been allowed to possess. Blue Topaz have healing powers that are able to treat people with eye problems. The most famous topaz is a stone massive game in the Portuguese Crown called Braganza.

If you own a house cleaner ultrasonic, I strongly suggest it is not used to clean the stone, although having a hardness of 8 on Moh's scale is not perfect cleavage include the risk that the impact in the wrong place has been known to fracture the stone So please be careful with hot soapy water is a much better alternative and safer.
Enjoy the many beautiful colors that jewelry Topaz has to offer.