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Chalcedon

NOUN
  1. the fourth ecumenical council in 451 which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ
  2. a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon

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  • Three gold rings from the Halicarnassian tomb of the fourth century B.C. Note in particular the chalcedony signet ring of a Persian soldier bottom, suggesting the loyalty that Artemisia had to Xerxes. The Battle of Salamis
  • Of the seven necklaces pictured here, all purchased recently, three are varieties of chalcedony, which is itself a type of microcrystalline quartz. WalesOnline - Home
  • Labradorite, Charoite, botryoidal chalcedony, and rocs, adn rocs, adn uh, smammie, uze gittin BORIN agin… sari….. and dey maeks handii howz-wholed wepenz.. sew dere, thwak. Ur daiz…dey is numbrd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Other minerals mentioned from the mine by Dunham include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcedony, and minor marcasite and pyrrhotite.
  • Allochems (peloids, oolites) with oncolites & intercolumnal detritus, anthraxolite (dark), chert & chalcedony (matrix), hematite (red), ankerite (white/light colored rhombohedra), algal laminae are all visible in image. Stromatolites - The Panda's Thumb
  • In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
  • It was one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28: 20; R.V. marg., "chalcedony;" 39: 13). Easton's Bible Dictionary
  • Chalcedon so long as they earnestly endeavoured to teach the heathen the rudiments of the faith and to love the Lord in incorruptness. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
  • There were rich red garnets, variegated jaspers, chalcedonies and agates of many hues mingled with rock-crystals. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
  • Groutite is observed as small, lustrous black, acicular crystals to 1/8 inch long that occur directly on the quartz or chalcedony.
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