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adj - varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
A chatoyant stone or gemstone, such as the cat’s-eye.
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Song about a bauble with changing lustre |
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Jul 6 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
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varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles |
(of a gem, especially when cut en cabochon) showing a band of bright lustre caused by reflection from inclusions in the stone. |
Having a changeable luster. |
A chatoyant stone or gemstone, such as the cat's-eye. |
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In gemology, Chatoyancy ( sh-TOY-n-see), or chatoyance or cat's eye effect, is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones. Coined from the French "il de chat", meaning "cat's eye", chatoyancy arises either from the fibrous structure of a material, as in tiger's eye quartz, or from fibrous inclusions or cavities within the stone, as in cat's eye chrysoberyl. The precipitates that cause chatoyance in chrysoberyl are the mineral rutile, composed mostly of titanium dioxide. Examined samples have yielded no evidence of tubes or fibres. The rutile precipitates all align perpendicularly with respect to cat's eye effect. It is reasoned that the lattice parameter of the rutile matches only one of the three orthorhombic crystal axes of the chrysoberyl, resulting in preferred alignment along that direction. * The effect can be likened to the sheen off a spool of silk: The luminous streak of reflected light is always perpendicular to the direction of the fibres. For a gemstone to sho |