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oval cut scheelite from China

scheelite

It is named after the Swedish chemist Karl W. Scheel (1742-1786) who discovered the tungstic acid. Tungsten is the current name of the chemical that was the metal component of wolframite, scheelite is still called a wolframate or tungstate …

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pyrolusite crystals from Germany

pyrolusite

Identified and named in 1827, its name comes from the Greek words meaning “fire” and “who washes”, as it was used to remove from glass its green and brown color due to iron. This is the main element of “dendrites ” black seepage into the

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emerald cut pyrargyrite

pyrargyrite

Described in 1831 by Glocker, its name comes from the Greek “pyros” meaning fire and “Argyros” for money. It is a silver salt of a fire red color.

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phosgenite emerald cut

phosgenite

Discovered in England, its name comes from the Greek “phos” meaning “light” and “genan” – “which leads “, in connection with its lights characteristic, was given by Haidinger. Karsten, who had described it in the early nineteenth century had named it hornblei.

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oval cut peridot from Burma

peridot

Formerly this mineral was called chrysolite, although the “chrysolitus” of Pliny was probably referred to topaz, a “yellow stone”, a “golden stone”. Also called ” stones of knights ” because it would be the crusaders who brought peridot from the east to europe where it

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emerald cut orthoclase form Madagascar

orthoclase

Described by Breithaupt in 1823, its name comes from the Greek Greek “orthos” meaning “straight fracture“, because it has the characteristic to cleave in two orthogonal planes. Named at the beginning orthoclase, orthose, its french name, was given lately by René Just Haüy. In its

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