Turquoise
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turquoise-182-9858484
title:
Turquoise
text:
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue. Like most other opaque gems, turquoise has been devalued by the introduction of treatments, imitations, and synthetics into the market. The robin egg blue or sky blue color of the Persian turquoise mined near the modern city of Nishapur, Iran, has
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description:
Opaque, blue-to-green mineral
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise
date created:
2002-06-09T13:04:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T07:43:02Z
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