Color Names

Common Chalcedony

Earthy, gentle quartz, like the soft focus of a desert rock.

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Common Chalcedony is a soft beige, close to brown.

It can be described as soft, light, warm and pastel.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Common Chalcedony

Chalcedony

Chalcedony is an aggregate of cryptocrystalline or microcrystalline silica, or in simpler terms, a mass of individual silica crystals that are too small to be seen without magnification. It is composed primarily of quartz, with minor amounts of intergrown moganite. These are both silica minerals with a chemical composition of SiO2, but they differ in that quartz has a more symmetrical crystal structure (trigonal) than moganite (monoclinic). Mineralogically speaking, the quartz and moganite crystals in chalcedony must grow in parallel chains, called "fibers." However, the term chalcedony may more broadly refer to any microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica, fibrous or not.

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common

Adjective

  1. Mutual; shared by more than one.
  2. (of a quality) Existing among virtually all people; universal.

Noun

  1. Mutual good, shared by more than one.
  2. A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
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chalcedony

Noun

  1. A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
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