What is the difference between citrine and topaz?

Answer 1

Citrine and Topaz look almost identical which makes it difficult for someone who is not a gemologist to tell the difference. Citrine is a quartz while Topaz is a mineral mixture of aluminum and fluorine.

Answer 2

Quartz contains silicon and oxygen. Topaz contains silicon, oxygen, hydrogen, aluminum, and fluorine. The two minerals also have a different crystalline structure and topaz is harder than quartz.

Answer 3

Citrine is a variety of quartz with a yellow to golden color, while topaz is a separate mineral that can occur in a range of colors, including yellow. Citrine is typically found in warmer hues, while topaz can also be pink, blue, or colorless. In terms of hardness, topaz is generally harder than citrine on the Mohs scale.

Answer 4

Citrine is a form of quartz. Topaz is a separate mineral from quartz, and does not share many of its physical properties, such as hardness and chemical formula.

Answer 5

Topaz is a tannish mineral, emerald green of course but there can be different colors. Test them by testing the harness of the scale 1-10 Talc is 1 Diamond is 10

Answer 6

they are both gems