chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky luster.' name='description'> tiger's eye - definition and meaning

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  • noun A chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky luster.

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  • Tiger's eye (also Tigers eye, Tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually yellow- to red-brown, with a silky luster. It is a fibrous silicified crocidolite (blue asbestos), a classic example of pseudomorphous replacement. An incompletely silicified blue variant is called Hawk's eye. A member of the quartz group, its physical and optical properties are identical or very near to those of single-crystal quartz.

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    February 14, 2008