İngilizce - İngilizce
tigereye teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı
- A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament
- or tiger's-eye Semiprecious quartz gem displaying chatoyancy, a vertical luminescent band like that of a cat's eye. Bands of parallel, blue asbestos (crocidolite) fibres are first altered to iron oxides and then replaced by silica. The gem has a rich yellow to yellow-brown or brown colour and a fine golden lustre when it is polished. The best stones come from South Africa. See also cat's-eye
- {i} type of semiprecious stone
- It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite