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Webster 1913 Edition
Aventurine
A-ven′tu-rine
,Noun.
[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.
Definition 2024
aventurine
aventurine
English
Aventurine quartz
Alternative forms
Noun
aventurine (countable and uncountable, plural aventurines)
- A kind of glass containing gold-colored spangles.
- (mineralogy) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Translations
quartz
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