Blue apatite

ETYMOLOGYIt comes from the Greek and means "deception" for ease of confusing it with other stones.
 
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Hexagonal.
 
PRINCIPLE OF FORMATION: Primary, Secundary, tertiary.
 
MINERAL CLASS: Phosphates.
 
CHEMICAL FORMULA, MINERAL ELEMENTSCa 5 (F, Cl, OH) [PO 4] 3.
 
HARDNESS: 5 in the Mohs scale.
 
FIELDSMexico, Brazil, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Burma, South Africa, Norway, Sri Lanka.
 
 

MINERALOGY: Located in hydrothermal veins, pegmatites and metamorphic limestone sediment also where it is produced from organic deposits, phosphate apatite is a magmatic origin, more rarely Secundary origin, mostly made up of opaque glass..


MYTHOLOGY: In Logrosán (Extremadura) used apatite from ancient times it is said that in the Cercon Witch covens in which they threw into the fire a white powder that emitted fluorescent flashes were held, it is said that the French chemist and pharmacist Joseph Louis Proust (Angers, September 26, 1754 - ibid, July 5, 1826) first defined the fluorapatite in 1781 using samples of this Extremadura municipality which announced this mineral. The enamel of our teeth and part of the bone is formed by apatite.


PROPERTIES: Brings sincerity and sociability, is useful against apathy, reduces irritability, facilitates overcoming anger and concern reluctantly eliminates the frustration.

 

CHAKRAS: Throat, eyebrows.

 

ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus, Cancer, Leo.

 

USES: Apatite is the main source of phosphorus and phosphate and therefore is essential in the manufacture of mineral fertilizers. Jewelry, meditation, collection.

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