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Agate is also still used today for decorative displays, cabochons, beads, carvings and Intarsia art as well as face-polished and tumble-polished specimens of varying size and origin. Idar-Oberstein was one of the centers which made use of agate on an industrial scale. Where in the beginning locally found agates were used to make all types of ...
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Aqeeq, akik or aqiq (Arabic: العقيق) means quartz in Arabic, and agate in Turkish, however in the context of rings usually refers to a ring set with a chalcedony stone. Well-known types of chalcedony are carnelian, agate, and onyx.
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Fordite, also known as Detroit agate, Motor City agate, [1] paint rock, or paint slag, [2] is a lapidarist term for polished pieces of finely layered paint masses from automobile factories. The masses consist of automotive paint which has hardened sufficiently to be cut and polished.
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Grape Agate is a market name for purple aggregates of tiny quartz crystals with botryoidal (spherical) habit. [1] Mineralogically speaking, grape agate is not an agate [2] and is actually botryoidal purple chalcedony. [3] It occurs in Indonesia [2] and has also been found west of the Green river in Utah. [4]: 75