Rhyolite

ETYMOLOGY: Comes from the greek rhyax meaning 'power' and lithos meaning 'rock'.

CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Trigonal.

PRINCIPLE OF FORMATION:  Primary.

CLASS MINERAL: Silicates / oxides.

CHEMICAL FORMULA, MINERAL ELEMENTS: SiO2 + (Ca, K, Na) [AlSi3O8].

HARDNESS: 6.5 - 7 on the Mohs scale.

FIELDS: Australia, Spain.

MINERALOGY: Rhyolite is a volcanic rock. It is composed mainly of quartz, feldspar and sphalerite sphalerite their gaseous cavities were filled with silica precipitates giving rise to this cavity. As healing stones or collectibles are used rhyolite green chalcedony with inclusions (orbicular jasper) or rhyolite, sandstone-colored glass inclusions (Jasper Leopard) .You can file a flow structure, which gives it a banded appearance. These rocks have bands that formed when in short distances from the lava after the eruption that took her to the surface.

MYTHOLOGY: The highest concentration of rhyolite is in New Zealand. There are some rich in sulfur springs are the remains of a major eruption. It spreads through the air a cloud of gas that threw lava whole area. Hardened lava forming rhyolite. Also pumice (or pumice) is a rhyolitic glass, rhyolite is the volcanic equivalent of granite.

PROPERTIES: It is said that the rhyolite reinforces self-esteem, strengthens soul, body and mind, and is intensely useful in exploring the full extent of the "I", useful for the healing of past lives, emotional balancing, and activate the potential and creativity of the soul. Its varied colors indicate change, variety and progress. Rhyolite helps boost the desire to progress in life, focusing on the present moment and settling what stagnates.

CHAKRAS: Solar Plexus, eyebrows.