Aventurine

Definition of Aventurine

A`ven´tu`rine
n.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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goldstone, quartz, sunstone, transparent gem
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