Beryl

  A beryl is a mineral of great hardness. It occurs in a lot of colors such as green, yellow, pink and  white. The beryl  is a mineral, which is made up of aluminum beryllium silicate.

 Some different properties of the beryl are it is really hard and comes in different sizes and many different colors. The beryl is mostly used as gems.

 Everyone admires the green fire of the emerald and they're are different colors of the same minerals .Pink and peach were named after their collector. The golden beryl, red beryl, the pail green and the colorless beryl, show the brilliance of this gem family.

  The morganatic is probably the mast important of the other beryl's. It is a pastel pink to a peach. It was first discovered in California in 1908 .There were also deposits in Brazil.

  Heliodor of the golden beryl is named after a greek word it is a sunny yellow color. This gem was discovered into 1910 . The colorless beryl is also rare. It is named after the place it was found in Massachusetts The Greek used colorless beryl as lenses; the first spectacles were probably beryl

 All the gemstones in the beryl family are brilliant and perfect for jewels use.

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