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Onyx vs Jasponyx - What's the difference?

onyx | jasponyx |

In mineralogy terms the difference between onyx and jasponyx

is that onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz while jasponyx is a form of onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper.

As an adjective onyx

is jet-black.

onyx

English

(wikipedia onyx)

Noun

  • (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
  • A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • jet-black
  • * , Genesis, 2:12
    • And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/7/2 citation
    • , 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

    See also

    * sardonyx

    References

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    jasponyx

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (mineralogy) A form of onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper.