Selenite Crystal Pyramid Essential Oil dense enough to hold the

dense enough to hold the form

It forms in gas cavities within volcanic basalt

At Mohs 7 it wears as well as the quartz it is

cut from the Urals and worked into bowls and columns like malachite

well below quartz - the one fact that governs the wearing

Selenite Crystal Pyramid Essential Oil dense enough to hold theSelenite a translucent white cut to four faces, a satin sheen running up each side toward the point, the soft gypsum named for the moon. Softer than almost any stone cut. From Morocco, a pyramid. It is gypsum hydrated calcium sulfate, Mohs 2, soft enough to mark with a fingernail. The satin sheen is chatoyancy, light running along the stones fine fibres, a band that travels as the light moves, like sheen on satin. Two things follow from its softness