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Ch. 14: Cat?s Eye

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Cat's-Eye                        137
day of the Czar Alexander II., of Russia, for whom it was named. Alexandrite has marked
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hues of red and green, the national colours of Russia; by daylight it shows a bright or deep olive-green colour, but in artificial light a soft columbine red or raspberry red or raspberry tint. One description of this gem includes the phrase " it is an emerald by day and an ame­thyst by night." Subsequent to the discovery of alexandrite in the Urals, the same gem mineral, but of a better and more workable quality, was discovered in the island of Ceylon, which is the present principal source of supply.
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