Chalcedony, the Glossary
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.[1]
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61 relations: Afghanistan, Agate, Anatolia, Anno Domini, Bhimbetka rock shelters, Blood, Blue cheese, Bolivia, Book of Revelation, Bronze Age, Carnelian, Central Asia, Central Australia, Chalcedon, Chemical structure, Chrome chalcedony, Chromium, Chrysoprase, Copper, Crete, Cryptocrystalline, De Gruyter, Engraved gem, Gemstone, Greenland, Hapax legomenon, Heliotrope (mineral), Hexagonal crystal family, Idar-Oberstein, Illorsuit, International Mineralogical Association, Iridescence, Iron oxide, Istanbul, Jasper, Kadıköy, Knossos, Kushan Empire, List of minerals, Mediterranean Sea, Mineral, Minoan civilization, Minoan seals, Moganite, Monoclinic crystal system, Moss, Moss agate, Natural History (Pliny), Nickel(II) oxide, Onyx, ... Expand index (11 more) »
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Agate
Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Bhimbetka rock shelters
The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period.
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Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
Blue cheese
Blue cheese is any of a wide range of cheeses made with the addition of cultures of edible molds, which create blue-green spots or veins through the cheese.
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Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Carnelian
Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral commonly used as a semiprecious stone. Chalcedony and Carnelian are trigonal minerals.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Central Australia
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia.
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Chalcedon
Chalcedon (Χαλκηδών||; sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.
Chemical structure
A chemical structure of a molecule is a spatial arrangement of its atoms and their chemical bonds.
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Chrome chalcedony
Chrome chalcedony is a green variety of the mineral chalcedony, colored by small quantities of chromium. Chalcedony and chrome chalcedony are trigonal minerals.
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Chromium
Chromium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cr and atomic number 24.
Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase, chrysophrase or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains small quantities of nickel.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Cryptocrystalline
Cryptocrystalline is a rock texture made up of such minute crystals that its crystalline nature is only vaguely revealed even microscopically in thin section by transmitted polarized light. Chalcedony and Cryptocrystalline are Lithics.
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De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
Engraved gem
An engraved gem, frequently referred to as an intaglio, is a small and usually semi-precious gemstone that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face.
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Gemstone
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Hapax legomenon
In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (also or; hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, plural hapaxes) is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context: either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text.
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Heliotrope (mineral)
The mineral aggregate heliotrope, also called Indian bloodstone or ematille, is a cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz that occurs mostly as jasper (opaque) or sometimes as chalcedony (translucent).
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Hexagonal crystal family
In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the 6 crystal families, which includes two crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and two lattice systems (hexagonal and rhombohedral).
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Idar-Oberstein
Idar-Oberstein is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Illorsuit
Illorsuit (old spelling: Igdlorssuit) is a former settlement in Avannaata municipality, in western Greenland.
International Mineralogical Association
Founded in 1958, the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) is an international group of 40 national societies.
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Iridescence
Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear gradually to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.
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Iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.
Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Jasper
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.
Kadıköy
Kadıköy is a municipality and district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Knossos
Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.
Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.
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List of minerals
This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Minoan seals
Minoan seals are impression seals in the form of carved gemstones and similar pieces in metal, ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization.
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Moganite
Moganite is an oxide mineral with the chemical formula SiO2 (silicon dioxide) that was discovered in 1976.
Monoclinic crystal system
In crystallography, the monoclinic crystal system is one of the seven crystal systems.
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Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
Moss agate
Moss agate pebble, 1 inch (25 mm) long Moss agate is a semi-precious gemstone formed from silicon dioxide.
Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.
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Nickel(II) oxide
Nickel(II) oxide is the chemical compound with the formula.
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Onyx
Onyx is the parallel-banded variety of chalcedony, a silicate mineral.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Paleocene
The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). Chalcedony and Quartz are trigonal minerals.
Seal (emblem)
A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.
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Silicate mineral
Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Solubility
In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent.
Tillya Tepe
Tillya tepe, Tillia tepe or Tillā tapa (translit, literally "Golden Hill" or "Golden Mound") is an archaeological site in the northern Afghanistan province of Jowzjan near Sheberghan, excavated in 1978 by a Soviet-Afghan team led by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony
Also known as Calcedony, Canary Stone, Plasma (mineral).
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