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• Aventurine — is a form of quartz, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give a shimmering or glistening effect termed aventurescence . The most common colour of aventurine is green, but it may also be orange,… …   Wikipedia

• aventurine — [ə ven′chə rin] n. [Fr < It ( vetro) avventurino, aventurine (glass): so named from resembling the mineral avventurina (< avventura, chance), so named from its rarity: see ADVENTURE] 1. a kind of glass flecked with spangles, as from copper… …   English World dictionary

• Glass production — Glass is common in everyday life, from glass windows to glass containers. The manufacture of glass for everyday purposes may involve complexity and automation. This article deals with the mass production of glass. Glass container productionGlass… …   Wikipedia

• Glass coloring and color marking — may be obtained by 1) addition of coloring ions,[1][2] by 2) precipitation of nanometer sized colloides (so called striking glasses[1] such as ruby gold [3] or red selenium ruby ),[2] 3) by colored …   Wikipedia

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• aventurine — noun Etymology: French, from aventure chance more at adventure Date: 1811 1. glass containing opaque sparkling particles of foreign material usually copper or chromic oxide 2. a translucent quartz spangled throughout with scales of mica or other… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• aventurine — [ə vɛntʃərɪn] noun 1》 brownish glass containing sparkling particles of copper or gold. 2》 translucent quartz or feldspar containing small reflective mineral particles. Origin C18: from Fr., from Ital. avventurino, from avventura chance (because… …   English new terms dictionary

• aventurine — n. Mineral. 1 brownish glass or mineral containing sparkling gold coloured particles usu. of copper or gold. 2 a variety of spangled quartz resembling this. Etymology: F f. It. avventurino f. avventura chance (because of its accidental discovery) …   Useful english dictionary

• Murano glass — paper weights Murano glass is a famous product of the Venetian island of Murano. Located off the shore of Venice, Italy, Murano has been a commercial port as far back as the 7th century. By the 10th century, the city had become well known for its …   Wikipedia

• Venetian glass — is a type of glass object made in Venice, Italy, primarily on the island of Murano. It is world renowned for being colorful, elaborate, and skilfully made.Many of the important characteristics of these objects had been developed by the 13th… …   Wikipedia

• Goldstone (gemstone) — Goldstone is a type of glass made with copper or copper salts in the presence of a reducing flame. Under normal oxidative conditions, copper ions meld into the silica to produce transparent bluish green glass; when the reduced goldstone melt… …   Wikipedia