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Spinel vs Jasper - What's the difference?

spinel | jasper |

In mineralogy terms the difference between spinel and jasper

is that spinel is   Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours while jasper is an opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.

As a proper noun Jasper is

a given name derived from Persian, an English variant of Caspar.

spinel

English

(wikipedia spinel)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mineralogy)   Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
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  • (solid state chemistry)   Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.
  • Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
    • (Knight)
    (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * ruby

    Derived terms

    * selenospinel * sulfospinel

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    jasper

    English

    (wikipedia jasper)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from (etyl) iaspis, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  • (mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  • Jasperware pottery.
    • Derived terms
    * Jasper National Park * jasper opal * jasperated * jasperite * jasperize * jasperoid * jasperous * jasperware * jaspery * jaspidean * lavender jasper * xyloid jasper
    See also
    * jasperware

    Etymology 2

    From the male personal name Jasper .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  • (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
  • * 1975 , Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
    • Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper .
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 122:
    • “That jasper ,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
  • * 1968 , Charles Portis, True Grit , The Saturday Evening Post
    • "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

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