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aventurine

[ UK /ævˈɛnt‍ʃəɹˌiːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals

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  • The Stanford museum has three vases executed in the smelze technique whereby existing bits of colored glass, often including aventurine, were melted together.
  • Plutonites, also magmatic, form in conditions of extreme heat and pressure far deeper within the Earth; colourful translucent crystals such as aventurine, peridot and rose quartz are the result.
  • Towards the end, I use my gold aventurine hand pulled stringer. Archive 2008-12-01
  • This one has a small branch made of aventurine with multi shades of green leaves. Archive 2008-10-01
  • This week, our Artisan Beaders' Street Team has a lovely pair of green aventurine wavy ovals, faceted jasper briolettes and sterling findings made into earrings to give away. Archive 2008-11-01
  • He labelled the stone as a ‘specimen of aventurine, from a lake three miles to the north-east of Ben Hope, Sutherland, containing, besides the red mica, red zircons, and either colourless garnets or diamonds’.
  • _Aventurine quartz_ (sometimes called goldstone) has spangles of mica or of some other mineral enclosed in it. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • For example, amethyst blends well with lavender, fire agate with sunflowers, citrine with chamomile, aventurine with mint, sunstone with marigolds or daisy, and so forth.
  • She sprinkled lavender and mint on his stomach, then followed the lines of the star with a piece of aventurine, mumbling of Mercury, the Roman messenger of the gods and god of travelers, and invoking the element of earth. Arcane Circle
  • There are quite a few options, silver, gold or palladium leaf or foil, dichro, fine silver wire, aventurine copper flakes or perhaps you're ready to try Cubic Zirconium which are also known as CZs. Adding "Bling" To Your Beads
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