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Chrysoprase, chrysophrase or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains small quantities of nickel. Its color is normally apple-green, but varies from turquoise-like cyan to deep green. The darker varieties of chrysoprase are also referred to as prase.
Chrysoprase. Chrysoprase (also spelled chrysophrase) is a green variety of chalcedony, which has been colored by nickel oxide. (The darker varieties of chrysoprase are also referred to as prase. However, the term prase is also used to describe green quartz and to a certain extent is a color-descriptor, rather than a rigorously defined mineral ...
Chrome chalcedony is similar in appearance to the better known chrysoprase, but differs in that whilst chrome chalcedony is colored by chromium (as chromium(III) oxide), chrysoprase is colored by nickel. [4] The two can be distinguished with a Chelsea color filter, as chrome chalcedony will appear red, whilst chrysoprase will appear green.
Prase may refer to: Praše, ... Chrysoprase, a gemstone variety of chalcedony; Baka Prase (born 1996), Serbian YouTuber This page was last edited on ...
How difference about Chrysoprase and Chrysophase? So confuse these names!! fi:krysoberylli is not Chrysoprase. It is Chrysoberyl. -Afaz 12:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC) "Chrysophase" is a misspelling of chrysoprase. Chrysoberyl is an unrelated gemstone. --24.21.149.124 09:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
This likely refers to a chrome chalcedony (and not a nickel-colored chrysoprase, as the word is used today), which was known in the Roman world at the time. [7] It is a type of green agate, composed mostly of silica and colored green by a small percentage of chromium.
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Prasiolite (also known as green quartz, green amethyst or vermarine) is a green variety of quartz.. Since 1950, almost all natural prasiolite has come from a small Brazilian mine, [citation needed] but it has also been mined in the Lower Silesia region of Poland.