Peridot
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peridot-174-349527
title:
Peridot
text:
Peridot, sometimes called chrysolite, is a yellow-green transparent variety of olivine. Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one color. Peridot can be found in mafic and ultramafic rocks occurring in lava and peridotite xenoliths of the mantle. The gem occurs in silica-deficient rocks such as volcanic basalt and pallasitic meteorites. Along with diamonds, peridot is one of only two gems observed to be formed not in Earth's crust, but in the molten rock of the upper mantle. Gem-
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Green gem-quality mineral
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peridot
date created:
2002-03-20T16:18:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T13:13:09Z
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13
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