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2. Heliotrope (mineral) - Wikipedia

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   This semiprecious stone should not be confused with other ornamental stones that contain red jasper. Setonite, also called African bloodstone, is composed of red jasper, grey chalcedony, and pyrite. Dragon's Blood, sometimes called Australian bloodstone, is composed of red jasper and green epidote.

3. Dragon's blood - Wikipedia

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   Today, dragon's blood has a variety of uses. Outside of it being a pigment in paintings and colors, it is still used as a varnish for violins, in photoengraving, as a medicine, as an incense resin, and as a body oil. [citation needed] The occurrence of bitter taste masking compounds in dragon's blood from Daemonorops draco indicates the ...

4. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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   Colored Stones of Nüwa, five colored stones crafted by the goddess Nüwa that each represent one of the five Chinese elements, fire, water, earth, metal, and wood. ( Chinese Mythology ) Madstone , a special medicinal substance that, when pressed into an animal bite, was believed to prevent rabies by drawing the "poison" out.

5. Jasper - Wikipedia

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   Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, [1] [2] is an opaque, [3] impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.

6. Komodo dragon blood might help fight a growing human threat - AOL

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   Researchers think the lizards' blood could help humans fight off one of our biggest threats: antibiotic resistance.

7. Long gu - Wikipedia

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   A centuries-old controversy in the West concerned whether the medically-important cinnabar was a natural mineral or a mixture of elephant and dragon blood. [ 22 ] In the Araripe Basin of South America , Testudine fossils, mainly that of marine turtles, are sympathetically used to treat hyperactivity and similar conditions.