Product Description
Realgar and Orpiment
Total Weight 13.6 grams
Measures 15mm x 10mm
Realgar is a very distinctive and rare gemstone that can be used to bring energy into the body.
It is also used to increase sexuality and fertility.
It can expose our true-selves, both the positive and the negative.
Orpiment was used as a brilliant yellow pigment for painting before the development of cadmium yellow. Realgar was used as a ruby-red pigment with one important disadvantage, it fades to a yellow powder after long exposure to light.
Old paintings where Realgar was used now have a yellow colour in place of the red the artist envisioned.
Both orpiment and realgar occur in low-temperature hydrothermal veins (fractures in rock in which hot water precipitated minerals), in hot spring deposits, and as sublimates from gasses emitted from volcanic fumaroles.
Please be aware that Orpiment and Realgar are arsenic compounds, however they are not really hazardous as long as you do not put them in your mouth or make Gem Elixirs, wash your hands after handling them, and they are fine.
The fading of Realgar pigments also affects the mineral specimens. Realgar needs to be kept in the dark, if you leave it out the mineral will start to break down into a yellow mineral called pararealgar.
Please note Orpiment and Realgar pigments are highly toxic, being arsenic compounds.
Avoid inhaling dust and never ingest or lick.
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Realgar and Orpiment 37 set of 3
Product Code NU 339
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