chrysoberyl

How To Use chrysoberyl In A Sentence

• Your lucky gems are turquoise, cats eye chrysoberyl, tigers eye. You Were A Beautiful Baby--July 16
• There's also another gem called chrysoberyl that's really durable and has a higher refractive index than other gems so it throws flashes of color much like a diamond.
• The floors were tessellated in sardonyx and chrysoberyl, amethyst and topaz.
• He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wire-like line of silver, the pistachio-colored peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous four-rayed stars, flame - red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Reflection of light from parallel inclusions or a fibrous structure, known as chatoyancy, is shown best by the cat's-eye variety of chrysoberyl.
• Acorna shoved the chrysoberyl into the pocket of her shipsuit. Massage
• The floors were tessellated in sardonyx and chrysoberyl, amethyst and topaz.
• Michael Phelps may have a perfect swimmer's body, but can he scratch chrysoberyl? Ashes to Caches: Cremation Services for Dead Geeks
• When chrysoberyl is of fibrous or tubular internal structure it affords cat's-eyes (when cabochon cut), and these should be specifically named as "_chrysoberyl cat's-eye_" to distinguish them from the less beautiful and less valuable quartz cat's-eyes. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
• The cymophane shows a number of varieties, quite as many as the chrysoberyl, of which it is itself a variety, and these go through the gamut of greens, from a pale white green to the stronger green of asparagus, and through both the grey and yellow greens to dark. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones