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sculpted alabaster from Italy

alabaster

Its name comes from the Greek “alabastros” (earlier albatos) which designated a vase without handles, alabaster being used to make perfume vases without handles. Alabaster is an evaporite mineral. It is a massive aggregate of fine-grained variety of gypsum, its softness make it easy to

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cut acmite

aegirine

Found in 1821 by P.Ström and named “acmite” from the Greek “point, edge” in reference to the typical pointed crystals. But in 1835 Berzelius named it aegirine after Aegir, the Teutonic god of the sea. Richer in sodium than augite, it oxydizes itself, pruducing chlorite,

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