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Chalcedony
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Revelation 21:19. With it the third foundation of the wall of New Jerusalem is adorned. An agate-like quartz in modern mineralogy, of pearly luster and transparent, found in the Travascus mine in Cornwall. Cups, plates, knife handles, etc. are formed of it in India. Pliny makes it resemble turquoise; others make it of a light brown. The chalcedony of Theophrastus is called from Chalcedon in ancient Thrace, and was the copper emerald obtained from the mines there.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chalcedony'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/chalcedony.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chalcedony'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/chalcedony.html. 1949.
