10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BONE TURQUOISE»
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bone-turquoise. (bon'ter-koiz''),. n. A. fossil. bone or tooth colored bright-blue,
probably by phosphate of iron: early used as an imitation of true turquoise.
Sometimes called odontolitc. bone-waste (bon' wast), ». The dust or refuse of
bones after ...
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Exotic mineralogy: or, Coloured figures of foreign minerals: ...
I have given for illustration, a fi um of the bone Turquoise, from a fine specimen
belonging toalr. \Valker, of Arno's Grove; its laminated structure will distinguish it
from the mineral Turquoise; I suspect it would not retain its colour so well as the ...
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Precious Stones and Gems: Their History, Sources and ...
The Odontolite, or bone Turquoise, is, in fact, nothing more than the tooth or bone
or ivory of the great extinct elephant called the Mammoth, whose remains are
brought from Siberia, where they have been mostly preserved by having been ...
Edwin William Streeter,
1892
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A Manual of Precious Stones and Antique Gems
Odontolite, or turquoise de la nouvelle roche, also termed occidental, or bone
turquoise, appears to be bone or ivory coloured by oxide of copper. It is found in
Languedoc. The colour is generally fine, but of an inky-blue, which is never seen
in ...
Hodder Michael Westropp,
1874
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Economic Mineralogy: A Practical Guide to the Study of ...
A clear yellow variety known in the gem trade as " heliodor " has been obtained
from pegmatites near Rossing in South-West Africa. Bloodstone, see plasma (p.
279). Bone Turquoise (also named odontolite. and fossil turquoiae). Under these
...
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Mineral Resources of the United States
Nephelite=silieate of aluminum, sodium, and calcium. Nephrite^true jade, a
tough compact fine-grained tremolite (white) or actln- olite (green)- Nevada
diamond=obsidian, artificially decolorized. New rock=bone turquoise (in
distinction from ...
Nevada diamond=obsldian, artificially decolorized. New rock=bone turquoise (in
distinction from "old rock "=true turquoise). New Zealand greenstone=serpentlne,
richly colored, from New Zealand ; also jade or nephrite from New Zealand.
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Precious stones and gems, their history, sources and ...
The Odontolite, or bone Turquoise, is, in fact, nothing more than the tooth, or ivory
, or bone of the great extinct elephant called the Mammoth, whose remains are
brought from Siberia, where they have been mostly preserved by having been ...
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Raman, Infrared, and Near-Infrared Chemical Imaging
(c) 3D mesh of limb section (white), including bone (turquoise), illustrating
location of the cross section (blue) containing the highest Raman scatter intensity
. (d) Raman intensity at cross section in (c) in pseudocolor overlaid on the micro-
CT ...
Slobodan Sasic, Yukihiro Ozaki,
2011
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Creative Bead Jewelry: Weaving, Looming, Stringing, Wiring, ...
11 The fifth strand combines African glass, silver charms, bone, turquoise, and
glass, with an African turquoise turtle settled firmly into the center. 12 Check to
see that the five strands "nest" comfortably. String the left side of the necklace, ...