Presentation :

Names) :

1. Kyanite / Kyanite / Disthene: Chromiferous kyanite.
2. Ruby: (variety of corundum).

Etymology:

1. Kyanite and Kyanite: From the Greek Kuanos = blue (Werner, 1790).
2. Ruby: From the Latin Rubeus = red (Wallerius, 1747).

Group, Family:

1. Kyanite:
2. Ruby: Hematite Group, Corundum Family.

Color :

1. Kyanite: Light blue to dark blue or blue-purple, light green to dark green, gray-black due to graphite inclusions, sometimes dark yellow to yellowish or orange (Tanzania). But also white, pink (magenta). Sometimes zoned colors in the same crystal. Sometimes blue with red reflections (chromiferous variety).
2. Ruby: Red, red-magenta, sometimes under shades of purple to pink, sometimes asterism, rarely shimmering, sometimes trapiche.

Chandelier:

1. Kyanite: Glassy, ​​Pearly on the cleavages.
2. Ruby: Glassy.

Origin :

1. Kyanite: Tanzania, Brazil, Kashmir, India, Africa (Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia), Switzerland, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma), etc.
2. Ruby: Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Tajikistan, Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar.

Crystal system:

1. Kyanite: Triclinic: trimorph with andalusite and silimanite.
2. Ruby: Trigonal 296.

Chemical composition :

1. Kyanite: Al2SiO5.
2. Ruby: Al2O3 | Coloring: Chromium in Cr3+ form in octahedral coordination with sometimes minor participation of Vanadium and Iron in V3+ and Fe3+ form.

Transparency:

1. Kyanite: Transparent to Translucent.
2. Ruby: Transparent, Translucent, Opaque.

Density :

1. Kyanite: From 3.56 to 3.69 depending on inclusions. Chromiferous kyanite up to 3.70.
2. Ruby: From 3.80 - 4.05.

Hardness :

1. Kyanite: 4 to 5 on the faces of the prism, 6 to 7 transversely.
2. Ruby: 9.

Cleavage:

1. Kyanite: Perfect to Imperfect.
2. Ruby: None.

Breakage:

1. Kyanite: Scaly.
2. Ruby: Uneven, Scaly, (Conchoidal).

Line color:

1. Kyanite: White.
2. Ruby:

Shock resistance:

1. Kyanite: Fragile.
2. Ruby: Good.

Heat resistance:

1. Kyanite: Average (destroys around 1350°C by transformation into Sillimanite).
2. Ruby: Very good.

Properties and virtues:

• Combines the effects of the 2 crystals (Kyanite and ruby).

Physical virtues:

• Helps regulate weight.
• Helps to fill the lack of energy caused by an operation or following a long convalescence period: Surgery or other traumas.
• Energetically stimulates the body.
• Treats the throat, larynx and all associated disorders.
• Regulates the blood system.
• Eliminate fatigue
• Allows nerves and tissues to restore circulation in and around the traumatized area.
• Heals the brain from the effects of trauma, stroke or heart attack.
• Create new neural pathways around damaged ones

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Very good ally during major life upheavals: Moving, career, arrival of a child, adolescence.
• Keeps depressive thoughts away.
• Gives the strength, will and perseverance necessary to move forward.
• Helps people with complexes.
• Teaches us to love life.
• Heals emotional trauma.
• Leads you to make reasoned, thoughtful and wise choices.
• Soothes emotions, calms, promotes communication and reveals the inner self.
• Helps you maintain great confidence while fully accepting changes.
• Helps you find your own identity and have rational thoughts and a course of action.
• Gives self-confidence.
• Stimulates creative will and strengthens the heart.
• Promotes positive thinking.

Spiritual virtues:

• Anchor in our life.
• Stimulates the ^3rd eye and paranormal abilities.
• Fills blockages in the energetic and physical bodies.
• Helps protect the auric field from intrusion.
• Facilitates telepathy and person-to-person energy transfer.
• Excellent meditation stone , useful for traveling into the past and knowing our past lives.
• Powerful transmitter and amplifier of energies.
• Helps to get in touch with higher, spiritual guides.
• Helps to best interpret premonitory dreams.

Chakra:

• Excellent for healing the first and second chakras (Root and Sacral).
• Very useful for developing parapsychic gifts on the ^6th , ^3rd eye.
• Very useful on the ^5th chakra to heal various disorders and develop eloquence.

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