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Definition of Aventurine feldspar

Aventurine feldspar
Aventurine A*ven"tu*rine, n. [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. 2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

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- quartz at around 6.5.[citation needed] Aventurine feldspar or sunstone can be confused with orange and red aventurine quartzite, although the former is generally...
- today as an artificial imitation of later discoveries aventurine quartz and aventurine feldspar (sunstone). Adularescence – Milky luster or iridescence...
- stone an appearance something like that of aventurine, hence sunstone is known also as "aventurine-feldspar". The optical effect is called schiller and...
- eponym for the similar natural stones. The mineral name "aventurine" is used for forms of feldspar or quartz with mica inclusions that give a similar glittering...
- gemstone. Another variety more frequently used as a gemstone is the aventurine-feldspar or sun-stone found as reddish cleavage m****es in gneiss at Tvedestrand...
- minerals) Auerlite (variety of thorite) Avalite (chromian variety of illite) Aventurine (variety of quartz) Babefphite Babingtonite Baddeleyite Bakerite Balangeroite...
- Pyrophyllite Pyroxmangite Pyrrhotite Quartz Amethyst (var.) Ametrine (var.) Aventurine (var.) Chalcedony (var.) Agate Iris agate Onyx Sardonyx Bloodstone (Heliotrope)...
- the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar. Quartz exists in two forms, the normal α-quartz and the high-temperature...
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Kunz axe; 1200–400 BC; polished green quartz (aventurine); height: 29 cm, width: 13.5 cm; British Museum (London) History of art...
- Sithathoriunet; 1887–1813 BC; gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli, turquoise, garnet & feldspar; height of the pectoral: 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in); Metropolitan Museum...