Raviour Lifestyle Moonstone Gemstone Pendant For Astrological Benefits

It is a transparent to opaque oligoclase a variety of plagioclase albite and sheet mica. Moonstone is known to exhibit a distinct sheen under certain lighting conditions and it is the sheen which renders moonstone one of the most remarkable gemstones available today. In fact its name is owed to the almost magical bluish white shimmer it exhibits which closely resembles that of the moon. Gemologists refer to the shimmering phenomena as 'adularescence'.The optical effect of adularescence is a result of moonstone's unique structural pattern. Tiny inclusions of albite a sodium aluminum silicate are intermixed with host rock layers of orthoclase a potassium aluminum silicate. The alternating layers of different feldspars form a lamellar (scaly) structure which causes the interference of light as it enters the stone.