1) Agate 2) Bloodstone 3) Calcedony 4) Carnelian 5) Chrysoprase 6) Cornelian 7) Heliotrope 8) Onyx 9) Sard 10) Sardius
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1) Beautiful stone 2) Calcedony 3) Cut mineral 4) Decorative stone 5) Gemstone 6) Gemstone mineral 7) Jewel mineral 8) Jewel 9) Mineral jewel 10) Mineral gemstone 11) Polished jewel 12) Polished mineral 13) Prized stone 14) Prized mineral 15) Precious gemstone 16) Precious stone 17) Precious gem 18) Precious jewel
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Chalcedony i is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of the minerals quartz and moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while moganite is monoclinic. Chalcedony`s standard chemical structure (based on the chemical structure of quartz) is SiO2 (sil....
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• (n.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
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a very fine-grained (cryptocrystalline) variety of the silica mineral quartz (q.v.). A form of chert, it occurs in concretionary, mammillated, or ... [1 related articles]
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Chalcedony. Specimen mined in Namibia A beautiful mineral of the quartz family, consisting of quartz with some admixture of opal. It derives its name from Chalcedon in Bithynia, near which it occurs quite abundantly, and has been known by the name from ancient times. Chalcedony never occurs as ...
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A flint like stone with a waxy appearance, the sources of which are usually nodular.
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Chal·ced'o·ny (kăl*sĕd'o*nȳ
or kăl'se*do*nȳ; 277)
noun ;
plural Chalcedonies (-nĭz). [ Latin
chalcedonius , from Greek
CHalkhdw`n Chalcedon, a town in Asia Minor, opposite to Byzantium: confer
calcédoine , Middle En...
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A general term for fibrous cryptocrystalline quartz.
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Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline, translucent variant of quartz comprised of silica, having usually a whitish colour, and a lustre nearly like wax.
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n] - a milky or grayish translucent to transparent quartz
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calcedony noun a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz
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Form of the mineral quartz, SiO
2, in which the crystals are so fine-grained that they are impossible to distinguish with a microscope (cryptocrystalline). Agate, onyx, and carnelian are gem varieties of chalcedony
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Chalcedony is one of the cryptocrystalline varieties of the mineral quartz, having a waxy (semi-gloss) luster.
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. Occurs in limestone, dolostone, and mudstones.
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A cryptocrystalline form of quartz, microscopically fibrous with waxy luster. May be transparent or translucent, and with a uniform tint of white, gray, pale blue, and, less often, black.
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a microcrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, often milky or grayish.
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