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📐 Stone dimensions: approximately 15x15 millimeters in diameter
⚖️ Weight: 8 to 15 grams
🔷 Form: Free
✨ Color/Clarity: Black / Smoked Brown Transparency
🔬 Treatment: None
📜 Certificate: From Gem & Zen
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👉 Its name comes from a Native American legend: after a massacre, Apache women are said to have shed tears which, upon touching the earth, were transformed into these dark stones, symbols of mourning but also of comfort.
📋 Mineralogical sheet:
Characteristic
Description
Common noun
Obsidian "Apache Tear"
Scientific name
Obsidian (siliceous volcanic glass)
Family
Amorphous silicates
Chemical composition
Mainly SiO₂ (70–75%), with Fe, Mg, Ca and traces of metallic elements
Crystalline form
Amorphous (natural glass)
Color
Black to dark brown, sometimes translucent with a thin edge
Transparency
Opaque to translucent (depending on thickness)
Glow
Glassy
Hardness (Mohs)
5–5.5
Density
2.3–2.6 g/cm³
Cleavage
None (typical conchoidal fracture)
Texture
Rounded drop, smooth or slightly pitted surface
Geological origin
Formed during the rapid cooling of silica-rich lava
Known deposits
Mainly in the Southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico
Special properties
Used as a protective and healing stone in lithotherapy; appearance of a small shiny black drop
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