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2. Peridot - Wikipedia

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   Peridot (/ ˈ p ɛ r ɪ ˌ d ɒ t,-ˌ d oʊ / PERR-ih-dot, -⁠⁠doh), sometimes called chrysolite, is a yellow-green transparent variety of olivine. Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one color. Peridot can be found in mafic and ultramafic rocks occurring in lava and peridotite xenoliths of the mantle.

3. Gemstone Meanings: Power and Significance of the 25 Most ...

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   Citrine “A powerful gemstone crystal in a range of deep yellows, oranges, and yellow-cream-white, the citrine gemstone is said to bring abundance and wealth into one’s life,” Salzer says.

4. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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   The OED defines pyrope (from Greek Πυρωπός, lit. "fire-eyed")" as: "In early use applied vaguely to a red or fiery gem, as ruby or carbuncle; (mineralogy) the Bohemian garnet or fire-garnet"; and carbuncle or carbuncle-stone (from Latin "carbunculus", "small glowing ember") as: "A name variously applied to precious stones of a red or ...

5. Peridotite - Wikipedia

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   Peridotite is named for the gemstone peridot, a glassy green gem originally mined on St. John's Island in the Red Sea [65] and now mined on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. [ 66 ] Peridotite that has been hydrated at low temperatures is the protolith for serpentinite , which may include chrysotile asbestos (a form of ...

6. Lapidary (text) - Wikipedia

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   Title page of a printed lapidary by Conrad Gessner of 1565. A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and metaphysical virtues of precious and semi-precious stones, that is to say, a work on gemology. [1]

7. Crystal healing - Wikipedia

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   The Sumerians purportedly used crystals in their magical formulas 6000 years ago. [7] Ancient Egyptians mined for crystals and used them to make jewelry. Crystals or gemstones were also used in practice, for their metaphysical properties. Specifically, they used crystals as aids for health and protection.

8. Moonstone (gemstone) - Wikipedia

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   In more recent history, moonstone became popular during the Art Nouveau period; French goldsmith René Lalique and many others created a large quantity of jewellery using this stone. [5] The moonstone is the Florida State Gemstone; it was designated as such in 1970 to commemorate the Moon landings, which took off from Kennedy Space Center ...

9. The Best Things Our Editors Ate This Year - AOL

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   One of the best perks of working at Southern Living is getting to travel around the South for stories. And since we're located in Birmingham, it's easy to get to most places in the South by car or ...