CITRINE GEMSTONE
Citrine is the stone for promising career. Mistaken to be yellow topaz by finders in the past, this gemstone is one of the important yellow coloured gemstones. Citrine is kind of stone that is made for all and one need not do personality analysis while buying this. Whenever you want to put your best foot forward and excel in some kind of endeavour, use of citrine is highly recommended. One should make use of citrine jewellery to leave an indelible impression on the minds of the people who they meet for the first time. This is very much helpful in cracking situations like interviews where you want to appear as a very knowledgeable achiever.
Citrine is a perfect yellow gemstone that is considered very much affordable in comparison to other yellow contemporaries. Diamond or yellow sapphire are costly enough to be regarded as investment for lifetime while yellow tourmaline or chrysoberyl, though affordable tend to tilt on greener side not providing the yellow hue as desired. It is worth noticing that yellow topaz and citrine has nothing related to each other and have very distinct set of characteristics that can put them under two different and clear categories.
One can distinguish easily between the natural yellow and heat treated yellow gemstone with the help of appearance that it exhibits under normal light. Naturally yellow citrine is cloudy in appearance having very vague brownish tinge while heat treated yellow display occurrence of fine lines in the crystal. Amethyst, on heat treatment, tends to display citrine-like colour. A distinct gemstone known by the name 'ametrine' came into limelight because of the distinct amethyst and citrine bands in single crystal.
Citrine is poor man's yellow topaz and is considered very much affordable than the latter. This yellow coloured gemstone became so popular as soon as it was found only because of the reason that users had less costlier option in their hands to meet the trending parameters of fashion industry of Europe.
This affordable gemstone has simply engulfed the popularity of yellow topaz so much so that many of the users use this older name to describe what they are wearing. Till the time diamond was not discovered, various gemstones users thought yellow topaz to be one; it was only after the discovery and following hype around diamond that yellow topaz sunk into oblivion and then was pushed deeper by citrine. When yellow topaz will regain the status that it deserves is something that every gem lover contemplates.
Citrine, meanwhile, is being used a lot as a supporter of new thoughts and skills. Whenever a person needs to venture into new fields of knowledge or take entirely new kind of job, he is advised to wear citrine for better learning ability.
