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In Reply to: Quartz/tourmaline powders posted by barrows on March 27, 2008 at 15:02:06:
at local crystal shops, and it is relatively expensive compared to other crystal when you look at how small the beads are.
In chinese, tourmaline is called "lightning or electric" stone, and it's one of the most potent source of negative ions that can come from a gemstone. More interesting info about tourmaline at the link. Seems that lots of research about it happened at the research institutes in Japan ;-)Wiki link here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourmaline
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- Available usually as raw assorted colored tourmaline beads - hotbird 21:28:02 03/27/08 (3)
- hotbird, a question... - Djhymn 01:41:28 03/29/08 (1)
- Not really an expert on this, but the following gemstones - hotbird 07:37:20 03/29/08 (0)
- Further reading - unclestu52 00:31:07 03/28/08 (0)