Purplish red or rose-color Garnet between pyrope and almandine in composition.
Rhodolite Treatments
This material is reported by G.V. Rogers (unpublished observation) to change from purplish color to a hessonite-type brownish color on heating. A brief check confirmed this change at about 600°C in some rhodolites, but not in others; it could not be reversed by gamma irradiation – Nassau (1984) [37]
Originally a rose-red gem variety of Pyrope. Current usage has extended the name to any pink garnet in the almandine-pyrope series with most of the occurrences in the almandine compositional field. [30]
| Krāsa | Violeti sarkana[37], Brūni sarkana[37], Sarkana[37] |
| Spī | Stikla[58], Zīda[58] |
| Caur | Caurspīdīgs[37] |
| Cietība | 7 - 7,5[58][37][56] |
| Čakra | 4. sirds (Heart) Anahata[58] |
| Zodi | Strēlnieks (Sagittarius)[58], Lauva (Leo)[58] |
| Enerģija | Projektīvā Jan (izdala enerģiju, aktivizē)[58] |
| Kaites | Vielmaiņa[58], Imūnsistēma[58], Gremošanas sistēma[58], Elpošanas sistēma[58], Asinsrite[58] |
| Ķīmiskā formula | Mg3Al2Si3O12[30][58] |
| Blīvums (g/cm3) | 3,8[37] |
| Atradnes | Kenija[37], Mozambika[37], Šrilanka[37] |