Grey Agate

Agate

Agate is a banded variety of fibrous chalcedony. Agate stones are characterized by alternating bands of different colored chalcedony and often contain some visible quartz crystals. They are common in nature and can be found globally in a large number of different varieties. Most agates are concentrically banded, while some have bands that form parallel lines. Certain varieties of chalcedony without bands are commonly called agate, but these are not true agates. Moreover, not every banded chalcedony is an agate.

Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

grey

Adjective

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

agate

Noun

1. A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
2. The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+⁄2-point.

Adverb

1. On the way; agoing.