chrysoberyl

• The beryl also, is sea-green one way and a beautiful blue another; the yellow chrysoberyl is brown one way and yellow with a greenish cast when viewed another way. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• It crystallises in the 4th (rhombic) system, and its lustre is vitreous The cymophane shows a number of varieties, quite as many as the chrysoberyl, of which it is itself a variety, and these go through the gamut of greens, from a pale white green to the stronger green of asparagus, and through both the grey and yellow greens to dark. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• He leisurely unfastened the great chrysoberyl, big as a hen's egg, which adorned his fillet Look you, this is of a far more beautiful green than any of your trinkets, I think it is as valuable also, because of its huge size. —  Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
• Another important variety is that of the chrysoberyl called "cymophane." —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• The true chrysoberyl cat's-eye also has a somewhat similar fibrous or perhaps tubular structure. —  A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public

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