chrysoberyln.
/ˈkrɪsəʊˌbɛrɪl/ Mineralogy. † a. A variety of beryl, with a tinge of yellow.
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cymophane1804
gold beryl1807
alexandrite1844
chrysoberyl cat's-eye1874
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cymophane1804
gold beryl1807
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xx. 837 Crisoberillus is a maner kynde of berille, and pale greynes þerof schynen toward colour of gold.]
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. F3v Some [stones] are Green as..chrysoberil.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Chrysoberil, a precious Stone; being a kind of pale Beril, with a Tincture of yellow.
b. A yellowish green gem, in composition an aluminate of glucinum. A variety with a bluish opalescence is cymophane or chrysoberyl cat's-eye.
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chrysoberyl1661
cymophane1804
gold beryl1807
alexandrite1844
chrysoberyl cat's-eye1874
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 261 Chrysoberyll. Its colour is a dilute yellowish green, but like an opal it reflects, seemingly from its inside, a mixed colour of bluish green and golden yellow.
1874 H. M. Westropp Man. Precious Stones 67 The cymophane, or chrysoberyl cat's-eye, exhibits as it were the pupil of an eye moving about within the stone.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Dec. 10/2 ‘The Hindoo Lingam God’, consisting of a chrysoberyl cat's-eye fixed in a topaz, and mounted in a pyramidal base studded with diamonds.
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