{"id":6934,"date":"2013-01-18T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2021-09-17T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:55:03","slug":"peridot-gemological-information-and-caring-for-your-peridot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/natural-fine-planetary-talismans\/peridot-gemological-information-and-caring-for-your-peridot\/","title":{"rendered":"Peridot Gemological Information and caring for your Peridot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peridot Gemological Information and caring for your Peridot<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Natural<\/a> Natural Peridot of 4.00 carats Gemstoneuniverse<\/p>\n

Peridot Gems and Jewellery Should never be cleaned in Ultrasonic Cleaners<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gem Quality Olivine is known worldwide as Peridot.<\/p>\n

Natural Peridot also known as Olivine or zabarjad is the substitute gem of natural emerald \/panna and carries the planetary energy of Mercury\/ Budh within it. Metaphysical and healing properties of Peridot include helping the wearer, get rid of negative emotions and by regenerating positive life force by helping the endocrine system. Peridot also goes by the euphemism \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u0153emerald of the evening<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

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Peridot Gemological Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Color<\/td>\nGreen,\u00c2\u00a0 golden green, olivine green ,yellow-green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Refractive Index<\/td>\n1.654-1.690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crystal Structure<\/td>\nOrthorhombic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Durability<\/td>\nFair but sensitive to heat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hardness<\/td>\n6.5-7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Treatments<\/td>\nNone known<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Note<\/td>\nThere are many gemstones that look similar to Peridot especially Green Zircon<\/strong> but Peridot can be differentiated by its strong double refraction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Peridot Care<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ultrasonic cleaning<\/td>\nNot Safe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steam cleaning<\/td>\nNot Safe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strong Chemical Agent<\/td>\nNot Safe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleaning with warm soapy water<\/td>\nYes, Safe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light Sensitivity<\/td>\nStable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heat Sensitivity<\/td>\nMay Fracture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The hardness of Peridot is 6.5-7 on the Moh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scale of hardness and hence cleaning your Peridot Jewellery in an ultrasonic cleaner<\/strong> is not an option. It may lead to discoloration of the crystal. Strong cleaning agents should also be avoided.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> The hardness of Peridot is 6.5-7 on the Moh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scale of hardness and hence cleaning your Peridot Jewellery in an ultrasonic cleaner is not an option. It may lead to discoloration of the crystal<\/p>\n

Selected Rings, Pendants and Talismans made available to Gemstoneuniverse.com patrons in January 2013<\/p>\n

Gemstoneuniverse.com Table Peridot<\/strong> Gemstone<\/strong> Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Gemstone<\/td>\nNatural Peridot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight<\/td>\n4.00 carats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Treatment<\/td>\nNone, Untreated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Origin<\/td>\nBurma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Planetary Energy<\/td>\nMercury, Budh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patron Location<\/td>\nOrissa\/India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
All inclusive Price<\/td>\n$ 234.68 \/ INR 13025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comments<\/td>\nFeatured today is a fine natural Peridot from China of 4 carats set in sterling silver as a Mercury ring. The gem has a vivid olive green color with speckles of gold visible. Highly lustrous and with great clarity, the gem has an appealing scintillating oval cut that makes the play of light brilliant. Eye clean crystal, pleasing color, a solid carat weight and you have a Jyotish Gem<\/a> par excellence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Note:<\/strong> The above links generally exist on the website for a period of 40 days after which they are periodically deleted to make way for new gemstones and to enable faster browsing.<\/p>\n

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Peridot Gemological Information and caring for your Peridot Natural Peridot of 4.00 carats Gemstoneuniverse Peridot Gems and Jewellery Should never be cleaned in Ultrasonic Cleaners Gem Quality Olivine is known worldwide as Peridot. Natural Peridot also known as Olivine or zabarjad is the substitute gem of natural emerald \/panna and carries the planetary energy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[288,4,1682],"tags":[6200,6197,2149,1849,6239,6201,2826,6199,5299,6198,716,439,78,6238,5298,5297,6237,5300,436,6202,5301,1827,217,2388],"class_list":{"0":"post-6934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-article-database","8":"category-natural-fine-planetary-talismans","9":"category-natural-gemstones-videos","10":"tag-astrological-gemstone","11":"tag-astrological-stones","12":"tag-astrology-gemstones","13":"tag-astrology-stones","14":"tag-emerald-substitute","15":"tag-gems-for-astrology","16":"tag-gemstone-of-mercury","17":"tag-gemstones-astrology","18":"tag-green-zircon","19":"tag-horoscope-stones","20":"tag-natural-peridot","21":"tag-olivine","22":"tag-peridot","23":"tag-peridot-astrology","24":"tag-peridot-care","25":"tag-peridot-gemological-information","26":"tag-peridot-gemstones","27":"tag-peridot-jewellery","28":"tag-peridot-jewelry","29":"tag-planet-gems","30":"tag-ultrasonic-cleaner","31":"tag-vedic-gemstone","32":"tag-vedic-gemstones","33":"tag-zabarjad","34":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemstoneuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}