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Sardonyx vs Onyx - What's the difference?

sardonyx | onyx |

As nouns the difference between sardonyx and onyx

is that sardonyx is a gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony while onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.

As an adjective onyx is

jet-black.

sardonyx

English

(wikipedia sardonyx)

Noun

(sardonyxes)
  • A gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony.
  • * Bible, Revelations xxi. 20
    • The fifth, sardonyx ; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
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    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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