Onyx vs Jaspera - What's the difference?
onyx | jaspera |
(mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
jet-black
* , Genesis, 2:12
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/7/2
, passage=There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky?: a black night and very silent on Cimiez?; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah
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As a noun onyx
is (mineralogy) a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.As an adjective onyx
is jet-black.As a verb jaspera is
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English
(wikipedia onyx)Noun
Adjective
(-)- And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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