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What is a brilliant green to grass-green transparent variety of beryl?
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A brilliant green to grass-green transparent variety of Beryl used as a gemstone?
That would be.... Emerald.
What is the greek meaning of aquamarine?
A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
What variety of gemstone is an emerald?
Emerald is a green variety of beryl group where coloring element is chromium. A green variety of beryl without chromium, is not an emerald, is known as green beryl.
What is pezzottaite?
A raspberry variety of beryl
Is beryl found in New Hampshire?
Yes, beryl is found in New Hampshire, at dozens of pegmatite localities. Crystals range from colorless to white, yellow, green, or blue, and can be quite large, eg. 30 cm or more! They are typically hexagonal prisms embedded in matrix or, more rarely, free-growing in cavities. The transparent blue aquamarine variety of beryl is not common in NH, hence highly prized.
What type of rock is a aqua marine?
Aquamarine is a variety of the mineral beryl.
What type of mineral is a emerald?
Emerald is the green variety of beryl. Beryl comes in many colors, like blue, red, yellow.
What is bazzite?
An extremely rare blue variety of beryl that's rich in scandium.
Is aqua marine a sedimentary rock?
Aquamarine is a variety of the mineral beryl.
What is aquamarine?
Aquamarine is a blue-green coloured variety of beryl, or the blue-green colour of the sea.
Are rubies the same thing as a beryl?
No. Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum or aluminum oxide (Al2O3). Beryl is a beryllium aluminum sillicate (Be3Al2Si3O18) and forms gemstones such as emerald and aquamarine.
What is beryl's chemical formula?
Beryl is composed of beryllium, aluminium, silicon and oxygen. It usually also contains trace amounts of transition metals that are responsible for its color: emerald, for example, is a variety of beryl that contains chromium and/or vanadium in small quantities.
