Sunstone

Dull pink feldspar with metallic sparks, like the sun caught in a cloudy sky.

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Sunstone is a muted pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Sunstone

Sunstone is a microcline or oligoclase feldspar, which when viewed from certain directions exhibits a spangled appearance. It has been found in Southern Norway, Sweden, various localities in the United States, and on some beaches along the midcoast of South Australia.

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Sunstone (medieval)

The sunstone is a type of mineral attested in several 13th–14th-century written sources in Iceland, one of which describes its use to locate the Sun in a completely overcast sky. Sunstones are also mentioned in the inventories of several churches and one monastery in 14th–15th-century Iceland and Germany.

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sunstone

Noun

A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polarization of light.

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Its neighbors.

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Sunstone

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Sunstone (medieval)

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Its neighbors.

Its complements.

As a ramp.