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Aventurine   Listen
noun
Aventurine  n.  
1.
A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
2.
(Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.





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"Aventurine" Quotes from Famous Books



... glass, crystal glass; aventurine; murrhine glass; strass (artificial gems); schmelze (Bohemian glass); ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


Words linked to "Aventurine" :   sunstone, quartz


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