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What is tourmaline?

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Tourmaline is a group of gemstones. It occurs in almost every color. Besides being found in many different colors and shades, tourmaline may have more than one color in the same piece. The best known varieties of tourmaline are green tourmaline, pink tourmaline, and blue tourmaline. Tourmaline is very durable and very well suited for jewelry.

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Tourmaline resin appears to be used to mean different things to different people.

The most common usage appears to be a resin made from acrylic which is "tourmaline" green. Since Tourmaline comes in many colours using it as a colour name is at best creative naming.

In another usage of the phrase Tourmalines are powdered and placed in a resin carrier. A patent was issued "United states patent 6001282" for using such a device to shield mobile phones. Note patents being issued don't mean that the device has been tested or shown to work, only that a patent was requested and issued.

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