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• Chrysoberyl
  * Fluorescence = generally inert; yellow to green stone may show weak yellow under SW; 'mint' chrysoberyl shows strong red in LW * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Andalusite
  ...lifornia, Nevada, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut). The stone is pleochroic and can exhibit a pink, gray, green, red, or bluish colors so * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Nephrite
  A hard, dark green stone that is one of two minerals commonly called [[jade]]; the other is [[jadeit * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Talc
  ...carving, some pieces were baked to dehydrate the talc and thus harden the stone. Currently, talc is often crushed and used as a filler in paper, ceramics, * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Muscovite
  ...ilding Stones Quarried in the United States Canada and other Countries.'', Stone Publishing Co, New York, 1925 * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Topaz
  ...ay also be colorless, blue, brown, or pink. The transparent to translucent stone occurs most often in rocks of the [[granite|granite]] and [[rhyolite|rhyoli * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Graphite
  ...rafiet (Ned.); black lead; plumbago; wadd; hypercarburet of iron; Flanders stone; stove black; * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Serpentine
  ...a, and the United States (Deer Isle, California). It is used as a building stone and as a source of [[asbestos|asbestos]]. * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Quartz
  ...agonal prisms or pyramids. It has been mined or gathered as a semiprecious stone since Paleolithic times. Quartz is a piezoelectric crystal, i.e. generates * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Azurite
  ...hes blue; blue ash; sky blue; German ash; Bremen blue; blue bice; Armenian stone; lapis armenius; chessylite; blue malachite; mineral blue; basic cupric car * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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• Gypsum
  [[File:1995.739-E12832CR-d1.jpg|thumb|Stone vessel<br>MFA# 1995.739]] * C.W.Chesterman, K.E.Lowe, ''Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 19
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