How To Use Chalcedon In A Sentence
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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
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Of the seven necklaces pictured here, all purchased recently, three are varieties of chalcedony, which is itself a type of microcrystalline quartz.
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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.
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Other minerals mentioned from the mine by Dunham include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcedony, and minor marcasite and pyrrhotite.
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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
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In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
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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
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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
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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
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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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I don't see how the claim "'X is human' does not entail 'X is mortal' unqualifiedly" presupposes the issue at hand; for one can reject and, I imagine, many do the claim that being human entails being mortal without any acceptance of the doctrine of Incarnation, the Chalcedonian definition, or reduplicative analysis.
Archive 2005-01-01
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The carnelian is a siliceous stone and a species of chalcedony.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Neolithic tools like points, trapezes and lunates made of chert and chalcedony, besides stone querns and grinders, decorated bone objects, pieces of ochre and human burials were also found here.
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The diamonds of this district are noted for their purity and lustre, and are generally associated with other crystals -- garnets, agates, quartz and chalcedonies.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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There is a kind of onyx called a chalcedony, which hath the same qualities, [4151] avails much against fantastic illusions which proceed from melancholy, preserves the vigour and good estate of the whole body.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Anti-Chalcedonians" was the term appropriated by everyone in Asia who took sides against the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The fine-grained sediment of the matrix is composed chiefly of microgranular quartz, although chalcedony with a fibrous texture is sometimes found.
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The chalcedony may be banded or it may contain ‘pseudo-algal’ structures that are of special interest to collectors and lapidaries.
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These include Neolithic tools made from chalcedony as well as nephrite objects from Ancient China.
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Vein minerals are barite, calcite, chalcedony, and quartz.
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Around here there's plenty of good flint - schist and chalcedony and other good stuff not half a mile from here.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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Red chalcedony-lined geodes were prevalent at one time, their inclusions typically being quartz, calcite, ferroan dolomite, and iron sulfide microcrystals.
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But Augustine was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon, and there is no doubt that he is here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with the interpretation achieved by the long struggle of the Church to affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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Clutching the small lapis and chalcedony box in her hand, she hastened up the coralite steps.
The Hand of Chaos
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These other forms of silica include opal, chalcedony, flint and chert (non-crystalline), and cristobalite, tridymite, coesite, and stichovite.
Quartz
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Here and there the scarlet martagon (Lilium chalcedonicum), bright blue or yellow gingers; red, orange, yellow, and pure white orchids; pale lobelias, &c.; but they do not mar the general greenness.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
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Or, again, if we borrow from Pope Innocent III. his ideas as to the mystical meanings of gems, we find that chalcedony, which is pale in the light and sparkles in the dark, is synonymous with humility; the topaz with chastity and the merit of good works, while the chrysoprase, the queen of minerals, implies wisdom and watchfulness.
The Cathedral
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These other forms of silica include opal, chalcedony, flint and chert (non-crystalline), and cristobalite, tridymite, coesite, and stichovite.
Quartz
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From top: Siegelson antique archaeological revival gold and chalcedony brooch by Castellani, ca. 1880, price upon request, Siegelson, 212-832-2666; Bottega Veneta Milk silver bracelet $790 left and Magma silver bracelet $1,290 Bottegaveneta.com ; Stephen Russell Victorian 18k yellow gold agate pearl ruby and hard stone brooch, ca.
Cue the Cameo
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On St. Flavian II. of Antioch, banished by the emperor Anastasius with St. Elias of Jerusalem, for their zeal in defending the council of Chalcedon against the
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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_Agates_" are banded chalcedonies, the variety called "_onyx_" having very regular bands, and the "_sardonyx_" being an onyx agate in which some of the bands are of reddish sard.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
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Ceraunia, engendered by the thunder, sparkled by the side of chalcedonies, which are a cure for poison.
Salammbo
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Many ideas have been proposed for the development of chalcedony and the banding in agate.
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The smooth edge of the circular disc is then charged with diamond dust and oil, the diamond dust being bedded into the edge of the metal disc by the pressure of some hard, fine-grained material, such as chalcedony, or rolled into the metal by the use of a rotating roller.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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This highly silicified cycad contained bright red-orange to black, diamond-shaped leaf bases of chalcedony up to several centimeters across separated by zones of greenish-yellow chalcedony.
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Calcite and barite actually crystallize after the formation of chalcedony and quartz cease and often infill or possibly cause subsequent fracturing of the agate.
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The exact minutes of some of the Councils - e.g. Chalcedon - seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy.
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_Chalcedony_ too (which when banded furnishes us our _agates_, and when reddish our _carnelian_) is a variety of quartz, and _prase_ is only quartz colored green by fibers of actinolite within it.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
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The photos show that the material is extremely fine grained and relatively featureless in plain light; in crossed nicols it gives a botryoidal effect similar to that seen in chalcedony.
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The stones used include red jasper, white oriental alabaster, yellow chalcedony, and green gabbro.
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Monotheletism at once became among the adherents of Chalcedon a burning question.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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The collection today has eight vases executed by the Baroviers in calcedonio glass, which imitates chalcedony, banded agate, and other semiprecious stones.
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Slowest-forming and most beautiful of all, huge crystals of amethyst, agate, chalcedony and rock crystal grow where condensed water has managed to seep into naturally insulated rock crevices.
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The collection today has eight vases executed by the Baroviers in calcedonio glass, which imitates chalcedony, banded agate, and other semiprecious stones.
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In the spring of 1968, Stepanov together with amateurs B. Kantor and E. Kurdyukov discovered the now-famous manifestation of hollow agates with chalcedony pseudostalactites in the Moscow region.
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The coarsely crystalline veins are composed predominantly of colorless barite and quartz and white chalcedony.
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In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
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Furthermore Oehler had previously shown that the silica minerals quartz and chalcedony critically important in the petrification of wood, can be made, rapidly in the laboratory from silica gel.
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The formation is composed largely of dark limestone and dolomite, and contains black chalcedonic chert in fine laminated layers, a piece of which is displayed near the bottom of this page.
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The Stephen Webster Silver Collection is made from sterling silver, 18-karat gold and gemstones such as jade, chalcedony, goldstone, hematite and white agate.
Christina Aguilera Stephen Webster Performance May 31st Pure Las Vegas
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The bishop of Jerusalem, who had been given the title of patriarch in 451 by the Council of Chalcedon, had jurisdiction over Palestine.
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Tradition makes him subsequently bishop of Chalcedon, in Bithynia.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Common cements include clay minerals such as kaolinite, montmorillonite, or illite; quartz or chalcedony; iron oxides such as haematite; or calcite.
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The ivory horns were heaped with purple amethysts, and the horns of brass with chalcedonies and sards.
The Fisherman and His Soul
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
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The former habit is best known as the diagnostic morphology exhibited by stilbite; the latter is seen in many minerals, from malachite to chalcedony to goethite.
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‘That's chalcedony,’ Corissa remarked, her eyes focusing on the translucent gray capstones of the wall.
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There is a kind of onyx called a chalcedony, which hath the same qualities, [4151] avails much against fantastic illusions which proceed from melancholy, preserves the vigour and good estate of the whole body.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Among the chalcedonies are the sardonyx, agates, and cornelian.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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The most spectacular inclusions are bands of native copper that are in and follow the chalcedony concentric banding of the agate.
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The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
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4. Council of Chalcedon (451); repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism (the human nature subsumed in the one divine nature of Jesus) and delineated the two natures of Christ, human and divine.
Notes from my CCU presentation
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There were built-up fabrics, called _Charlottes_, caky externally, pulpy within; there were also _marangs_, and likewise custards, -- some of the indolent-fluid sort, others firm, in which every stroke of the teaspoon left a smooth, conchoidal surface like the fracture of chalcedony, with here and there
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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Other minerals mentioned from the mine by Dunham include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcedony, and minor marcasite and pyrrhotite.
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Heaney expected to find that the quartz in tiger's-eye was chalcedony, a form that typically consists of fibrous, defect-riddled crystals less than 1 micrometer in diameter.
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They were often made of semiprecious stones such as chalcedony, rock crystal, and lapis lazuli.
Jeweler's Wheel Secrets
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The many semi-precious stones which have a quartz basis (such as the varieties of waxy or cryptocrystalline chalcedony which is largely quartz in a very minutely crystalline condition) are often even tougher than the clear crystallized quartz.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Concretions of chalcedony after barite can be confused with cycads, and the wise collector must learn to differentiate between the two.
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The sequence is grey granite below, the band of chalcedony, and above it a curious schistose gneiss-formation.
The Land of Midian
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The matrix is composed of microgranular quartz with some fibrous chalcedony.
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
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Many ideas have been proposed for the development of chalcedony and the banding in agate.
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The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
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Ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur quod priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate pejora legissent Tacit.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The various colors of chalcedony have their own names: jasper when brown, carnelian when red or reddish-brown, chrysoprase when green, agate when banded with different colors.
Quartz
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As to the second, of which the name does not occur in treatises on gems, it may be identified with chalcedony, which is described as a sort of agate of an opaque quality, dimmed with clouds and flashing fires in the shadows.
The Cathedral
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A well-known locality for agate or chalcedony nodules in rhyolite (thunder eggs) is near the Twin Mountains, northwest of Del Norte in Saguache County.
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The French examples, typically with chalcedony handles and shagreen cases, are of the very finest workmanship.
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She had filled her pockets with specimens of obsidian, jaspers, and chalcedonies, of colors most beautiful, with a deep-dyed opaqueness, a shell-fracture, and a satiny polish like jade.
A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
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These basalts were covered with a mammiform substance, which I vainly sought on the Peak of Teneriffe, and which is known by the names of volcanic glass, glass of Muller, or hyalite: it is the transition from the opal to the chalcedony.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
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In Alexandria, Egypt, one of the first Greek anatomists to publicly dissect human cadavers, Herophilus of Chalcedon, determines that arteries are thicker than veins and carry blood.
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The stones used include red jasper, white oriental alabaster, yellow chalcedony, and green gabbro.
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In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
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Not until the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, three and four centuries, respectively, after the death of Jesus, did the custodians of his memory succeed in codifying
Who Do Men Say That I Am?
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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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The Brushy Basin sediments contain numerous chalcedony pseudomorph-after-barite concretions that range to more than 30 cm in diameter.
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On St. Flavian II. of Antioch, banished by the emperor Anastasius with St. Elias of Jerusalem, for their zeal in defending the council of Chalcedon against the
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
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Ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur quod priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate pejora legissent
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
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Councils -- e.g. Chalcedon -- seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory.
The Ochlophobist
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In clarifying orthodox Christology (the doctrine of Jesus Christ), the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) laid the foundation of Western liberty.
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The shoots and stalks themselves are casts composed of combinations of chalcedony, quartz, calcite, and barite.
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Slowest-forming and most beautiful of all, huge crystals of amethyst, agate, chalcedony and rock crystal grow where condensed water has managed to seep into naturally insulated rock crevices.
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Top lot will be the cover of a chalcedony cup dating from the 16th century, featuring Venus and Cupid cradled together within a scallop shell and framed by a silver gilt mount in the form of Jupiter as a swan.
A Week of Masters Descends
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The carnelian fortifications in these limbs are typical of the colorful chalcedony serving as cementing agents in conglomerates and replacing barite crystals and other fossils in the Brushy Basin sediments.
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Calcite and barite actually crystallize after the formation of chalcedony and quartz cease and often infill or possibly cause subsequent fracturing of the agate.
