IMPERIAL TOPAZ GEMSTONE
Imperial Topaz was named so by Russian Tsars who believed that pink coloured topaz is their exclusive property and wanted the world to know it by different name setting it apart from other members belonging to same family. This stone is considered very precious and proves its utility in making of astronomical numbers of jewellery pieces that are liked throughout the world.
This stone can rightly be called the 'fashionable stone' as it adopts varieties of shapes and treatments to fit into jewellery items that are statement makers on their own. Imperial topaz is basically pink in colour having slightly yellowish tinge. It also can reflect different colours like red or orange when viewed under light falling from various angles.
'Pinking' is the name given to the process of heating and it should be carried out very carefully as both under-doing and over-doing may result into absurd colour. Tourmaline, kunzite, morganite are some of the pink-coloured gemstones that fall close to imperial topaz in appearance but all these are found to be very different because of their hardness.
Imperial topaz stands at 8 on Moh's scale and therefore used far and wide for making classy jewellery items. Apart from meeting aesthetic obligation, topaz jewellery makes lot of sense as means for curing astrological misplacements. Some regard it to be useful for blocking the 'Throat Chakra' in human body and is advised for those people who find difficulty in expressing themselves. Orators, teachers and people involved in public speaking are advised to wear this stone for better performance.
Natural topaz is certainly a rarity and there are other heat-treated varieties that actually are achieved by making use of enhancement technique. Some jewellery makers, however, have started making use of coating and polishing too to achieve the pink colour but these should be worn only for adornment purposes. These are not expected to heal up the user in any which way.
Imperial Topaz is quite an eye-clear stone with almost no inclusions. Therefore, it can be cut in variety of ways and such cuts are considered for giving the proper shape that can help illuminate it to the maximum. You should be ready to pay extra premium for Imperial Topaz that exudes brilliance and exhibits glassy appearance - such is the clarity and perfection in natural shape that we are talking about!
Imperial Topaz does not scratch easily because of the hardness. However, this may get fractured when struck hard because of the cleavage in its crystalline structure. Depending upon the kind of hue that it reflects, this gemstone finds comparable similarity with citrine, chrysoberyl and golden beryl and yellow sapphire but all such comparisons can be put to silence by exposing topaz to hardness test where it scores less.
