Textbook blue chalcedony - great stripes in different shades of blue!
Diameter of the balls 10mm; the chalcedony strands are about 40cm long.
Communication, listening and understanding are the topics where blue chalcedony is used in modern stone healing. Blue Chalcedony is therefore also called "orator stone".
The terms "Calchedon" and "Carchedon" are first used by Pliny the Elder in his Latin Naturalis Historia in the 1st century AD. Which stones have been described here, however, cannot be clearly identified on the basis of the descriptions. Over "intermediate stages" like Calcedon, Calzedon, Chalzedon or Kalcedon the name changed to the today common Chalcedon.