10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOCHA STONE»
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Dendritic Agate [1 -4] Also called Mocha Stone Chalcedony Species Dendritic
agate is a colorless or whitish-gray, translucent chalcedony with tree- or fern-like
markings, the dendrites (Greek — tree-like). According to some authorities, the ...
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Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
... by which it would seem that the ochry pigment had percolated and spread in
the same manner as that described respecting pottery. The moss-agate, certain
marbles, and mocha-stone, exhibit similar dendritic figures. The entire voL. xxvr.
no ...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ... Edinburgh, Constable ...
... by which it would seem that the ochry pigment had percolated and spread in
the same manner as that described respecting pottery. The moss-agate, certain
marbles, and mocha-stone, exhibit similar dendritic figures. The entire voL. xxvi.
no.
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
... by which it would seem that the ochry pigment had percolated and spread in
the same manner as that described respecting pottery. The moss-agate, certain
marbles, and mocha-stone, exhibit similar dendritic figures. The entire VOL. XXVI.
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
... by which it would seem that the ochry pigment had percolated and spread in
the same manner as that described respecting pottery. The moss-agate, certain
marbles, and mocha-stone, exhibit similar dendritic figures. The entire tOL. XXVI.
And Blurnenbach says, in a letter to Baron Von Moll, that though he had hitherto
disbelieved the occurrence of vegetable bodies in the dendritic variety of
calcedony named mocha-stone, he must now admit that it does sometimes
contain ...
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A Systematic Catalogue of British Insects: Being an Attempt ...
1. 18.) Ph. annularia. Fabr. E. S. iii. b. 147. 6518. 2; ocellaria*: false Mocha.-Haw.
l. с. Ge. ocellaria.. НИ). Ge. pl. 13. f. 64.-( Паш. Pr. 24.)Haw. slm-(Sam. I. 18.) Ge.
albiocellaria. Esper. v. pl. xliii. f. 7? Ge. Hübneraria. (Haw. Pr. 24.) Mocha stone.
Stephens (James Francis), 1829
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A systematic catalogue of British insects: being an attempt ...
E. S. iii. b. 147. 6518. 2; ocellaria*: false Mocha. — Haw. I. c. Ge. ocellaria. Hüb.
Ge. pl. 13. /. 64. — {Haw. Pr. 24.) — Haw. 312. — {Sam. I. 18.) Ge. albiocellaria.
Esper. v. pZ. xliii./. 7 ? Ge. Hübneraria. {Haw. Pr. 24.) Mocha stone. Harr. V. M. 45.
James Francis Stephens, 1829
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Rock Roles: Facts, Properties, and Lore of Gemstones
... do resemble moss, this is actually not where the name came from. It was first
made popular near the seaport of Mocha (Al Mukna) in Yemen, and so it was
called “Mocha Stone” and “Mocha Agate,” which later got changed to Moss Agate
.
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An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy: ...
Mocha-stone. When translucent, agate contains appearances of arborization, or
vegetable filaments, which have been supposed to be owing to the infiltration of
iron or manganese through its natural crevices, and is termed Mocha-stone.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOCHA STONE»
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Rocking National Fossil Day
Geologist Lorraine Manz identified it as moss agate, also called mocha stone. It's a semiprecious gemstone formed from silicone dioxide. «Bismarck Tribune, Oct 14»
2013 Nissan Pathfinder: Wrap-Up [w/video]
After spending a little over a year with our Mocha Stone tester (a color that earned this Nissan the nickname "Sweet Brown") we came to ... «Autoblog, May 14»
