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Aventurine - What does it mean?

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aventurine

Alternative forms

* avanturine, aventurin

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (mineral) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
  • See also

    * sunstone ----

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.