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EMERALD |
Green gem |
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PERIDOT |
Olive green gem |
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EMERALDISLE |
Green gem I’ll expressly use for poet’s Hibernia |
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AQUAMARINE |
A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a
gem. See Beryl. |
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HIDDENITE |
An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North
Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem. |
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EUCLASE |
A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent
crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a
silicate of alumina and glucina. |
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DEMANTOID |
A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in
the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster,
whence the name. |
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CHRYSOBERYL |
A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or
brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard,
and is often used as a gem. |
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SPINELLE |
A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and
various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety
being the gem sp... |
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CHRYSOLITE |
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a
yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; --
called also olivine a... |
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BERYL |
...t, of much
beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish
green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate ... |