{"id":40,"date":"2026-10-01T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:15:33","slug":"test-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Test 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\">Turquoise<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opacity_(optics)\" title=\"Opacity (optics)\">opaque<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue-green\" title=\"Blue-green\">blue-to-green<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mineral\" title=\"Mineral\">mineral<\/a> that is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrate\" title=\"Hydrate\">hydrous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phosphate\" title=\"Phosphate\">phosphate<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copper\" title=\"Copper\">copper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aluminium\" title=\"Aluminium\">aluminium<\/a>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_formula\" title=\"Chemical formula\">chemical formula<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copper\" title=\"Copper\">Cu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aluminium\" title=\"Aluminium\">Al<\/a><sub>6<\/sub>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phosphate\" title=\"Phosphate\">PO<sub>4<\/sub><\/a>)<sub>4<\/sub>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydroxide\" title=\"Hydroxide\">OH<\/a>)<sub>8<\/sub>&middot;4<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water\" title=\"Water\">H<sub>2<\/sub>O<\/a>. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gemstone\" title=\"Gemstone\">gemstone<\/a> for millennia due to its hue.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_egg_blue\" title=\"Robin egg blue\">robin egg blue<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sky_blue\" title=\"Sky blue\">sky blue<\/a> color of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\" title=\"Iran\">Persian<\/a> turquoise mined near the modern city of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nishapur\" title=\"Nishapur\">Nishapur<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\" title=\"Iran\">Iran<\/a>, has been used as a guiding reference for evaluating turquoise quality.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turquoise#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\">Like most other opaque gems, turquoise has been devalued by the introduction of treatments, imitations, and synthetics into the market.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"299\" style=\"width:2.6041in;height:3.1111in\" id=\"Picture_x0020_1\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image001.jpg\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8&middot;4H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue. The robin egg blue or sky blue color of the Persian turquoise mined near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredsoffootprints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}