chrysocolla

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It was found that the stone was chrysocolla, or hydrated copper silica, which is still valued as an ornamental stone that, in its bluer forms, is sometimes confused with turquoise.

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  1. A silicate of the protoxid of copper, of a bluish-green to sky-blue color, apparently produced from the decomposition of copper ores, which it usually accompanies.
  2. Borax: so called in the sixteenth century because it was used in soldering gold.

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  • Different semi-precious stones including aragonite, a brown stone and chrysocolla, a beautifully variegated green stone are also very prominent in the jewelry from this area. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • It was found that the stone was chrysocolla, or hydrated copper silica, which is still valued as an ornamental stone that, in its bluer forms, is sometimes confused with turquoise. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Bianucci said that malachite was a more common green mineral in early Egypt, since chrysocolla ores were limited to very few in the Sinai and the Eastern Egyptian Desert. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • However, chrysocolla may have been special for children, as archaeologists previously unearthed a small figure of a child made of the green material in another grave. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • In both deposits, copper oxides, mainly atacamite and chrysocolla, are found from the surface down to depths of 200-300 meters, mixed with an increasing proportion of sulfides starting at shallow depth. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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  1. New Latin (later F. chrysocolle = Spanish crisócola = Italian crisocolla), from Greek χρυσόκολλα, gold-solder, from χρυσός, gold, + κόλλα, glue.
 

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