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  2. Opal - Wikipedia

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    A Peruvian opal (also called blue opal) is a semi-opaque to opaque blue-green stone found in Peru, which is often cut to include the matrix in the more opaque stones. It does not display a play of color. Blue opal also comes from Oregon and Idaho in the Owyhee region, as well as from Nevada around the Virgin Valley. [16] Opal is also formed by ...

  3. Opalescence - Wikipedia

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    Opalescence or play of color is an optical phenomenon associated with the mineraloid gemstone opal, [1] a hydrated silicon dioxide. [2] This effect appears as a milky, translucent glow that changes with the angle of light, often creating a soft, pearly sheen that can display various colors or hues.

  4. Galaxy Opal - Wikipedia

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    The Galaxy Opal is the world's largest polished opal, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. [1] It was found at the Boi Morto Mine in Brazil in 1976. [ 2 ] The finished opal weighs approximately 3,749 carats , or 0.75 kg.

  5. Hyalite - Wikipedia

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    Hyalite is a transparent form of opal with a glassy lustre. It may exhibit an internal play of colors if natural inclusions are present. It is also called Muller's glass, water opal, and jalite. Müller's glass is named after its discoverer, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein.

  6. Opalite - Wikipedia

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    Opalite is a trade name for synthetic opalescent glass and various opal and moonstone simulants. Other names for this glass product include argenon, sea opal, opal moonstone, and other similar names. [1] [2] It is also used to promote impure varieties of variously colored common opal. [1]

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    Missing photographer Hannah Kobayashi may have been intertwined in an alleged marriage scam with an Argentinian national before her disappearance, according to a shocking report.. Kobayashi, 30 ...