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Chrysoberyl

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GEMS.
Sometimes the chrysoberyl is prismatic.
It is found in Ceylon, Connecticut, Brazil, and Siberia. That from Brazil is generally found in trans­parent yellowish-green fragments. Specific gravity 3"7337.
The chrysoberyl from Siberia is chrome-coloured; in its chemical combinations the relative quantities are equal to those of the spinel. This mineral, though rather rare than otherwise, is little used in jewellery. It appears that the ancients did not know it, or at least we are in ignorance of what name they may have given it.
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CHRYSOLITE.
The ancients gave the name of chrysolite to the topaz, and the name suited it, coming from the Greek Chrusolithos, which signifies " golden stone."
In modern times this name has, instead, been given to a yellowish-green stone, which is often confounded with the cymophane and the peridot, but from which, never­theless, it differs not a little.
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