Olivine is a medium and low-precious stone with green in yellow, similar to olive. The most common on the wholesale jewelry market is olivine counterfeit goods made from colored glass.
The main difference between the two is that olivine has a clear "double-shadow," while the glass is not; Crystal qualities inclusions often can be seen within the olivine, while the glass contains only air bubbles; olivine proportion of 3.5, hardness of 7, both are larger than glass proportion (2.6) and hardness (6) .
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Olivine is known by many names. Besides its actual mineral names, forsterite and fayalite, it is known as "chrysolite", "evening emerald" and olivine. The term chrysolite is an old German name that was applied to gemmy olivine, but now is only sometimes used to refer to light yellowish green discount olivine.
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