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n. - A milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz.

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  • Stone-age; and, somewhat curiously, the locality of that stone blade is fixed, by its being of that semi-transparent opalescent calcedony which
  • The floor of the cavern was covered with heaps of water-worn fragments of quartzose rock, containing copper pyrites, in some of which the cavities were covered by a deposit of...
  • Upon the last southern table (23) are ranged further varieties of calcedony.
  • Having sufficiently examined these beautiful varieties of calcedony, the visitor should pass at once to the northern range of tables.
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