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While the price charged usually bears a fair relation to the value of the material furnished, it would be better to offer tourmaline, or peridot (the mineral name of which is olivine), or demantoid garnet (sometimes wrongly called "Olivine"), or "emerald doublets," or emerald or
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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"(Demantoid, known in the trade as" Olivine ") 3.84
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Olivine doesn't fit – It's a rock – a mixture of minerals.
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Diamond, Olivine, Aragonite decomposes to calcite at 470C, Ice.
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So Diamon, Olivine, Aragonite, Ice would appear to be the best order, because it describes the order that the most physical features fall in.
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Olivine: The only one that isn't metastable at STP (Ice melts, Aragonite reverts to calcite, and Diamond reverts to Graphite), The only one that weathers into something else (Ice melts, Aragonite dissolves, and diamonds simply wear down).
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The government previously shared ownership of Olivine with Heinz.
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Heinz, one of the first major foreign investors after independence in 1980, last year restructured its role Olivine to concentrate on its core international brands and move away from Olivine's fats and cooking oils.
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"Olivine and peri-dot," he announced with a grunt.
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Olivine eyes flashed through the frozen breath that emanated from between nine? inch? long sabers.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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