CARNELIAN (Cornelian)
This is a translucent, orangey-red chalcedony sometimes begin in bare tones and white, frequently with two combined. On
exposure to the Sun the hues become brighter but not in bogus light. It is able of aerial brightness which was why it was advised as the best bean to use as a seal, according to Pliny. The cellophane red blazon of carnelian is accepted as Sard and comes from Arabia, India, New Zealand, Europe, Mesopotamia, Surinam and Siberia. Many age-old Etruscan and Egyptian scarabaei accept been begin carved from this stone. Buddhism includes this in angelic 7 stones -Tibetans alarm it A-yu and as amulet has abstruse properties.
CORAL
Coral is formed by calcium carbonate in the skeletons of colonies of bendable bodied mollusks in close waters. It ranges in blush from the attenuate black, to blush and reddish-orange, the classical "coral" of fashion. It is additionally begin in a dejected color.
The age-old Romans and Greeks acclimated corals in ornamentation. Red, pink, white and dejected corals are fabricated of calcium carbonate but atramentous and aureate corals are formed of the amative actuality conchiolin. In all corals the ashen anatomy is arresting as cautiously striped of spotted graining. Red and blush corals from the Mediterranean. were accepted for centuries and generally acclimated in rosaries. There was an all-encompassing barter through Europe into Arabia and to India area apricot was additionally acclimated medicinally. The atramentous and aureate corals
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