Agate (/ˈæɡɪt/ AG-it) is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors. Agates are primarily formed within volcanic and metamorphic...
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Look up agate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Agate is a semi-precious stone. Agate may also refer to: Agate, Colorado Agate, Nebraska Agate, North...
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Moss agate is a semi-precious gemstone formed from silicon dioxide. It is a form of chalcedony which includes minerals of a green color embedded in the...
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Grape Agate is a market name for purple aggregates of tiny quartz crystals with botryoidal (spherical) habit. Mineralogically speaking, grape agate is not...
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Chalcedony (section Agate)
laboratories). "Fire Agate". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2021-04-11. Page, Geology (2020-01-13). "Fire Agate : What is fire agate? How fire agate is formed?". Geology...
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Agate is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Elbert County, Colorado, United States. The ZIP Code of the Agate Post Office is 80101. The...
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Agate is a given name or surname shared by several notable people, including: Alfred Thomas Agate (1812–1846), American painter and miniaturist Frederick...
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Enhydro agates are nodules, agates, or geodes with water trapped inside its cavity. Enhydros are closely related to fluid inclusions, but are composed...
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James Evershed Agate (9 September 1877 – 6 June 1947) was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his...
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Fordite (redirect from Detroit agate)
Fordite, also known as Detroit agate, Motor City agate, paint rock, or paint slag, is a lapidarist term for polished pieces of finely layered paint masses...
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Agate Beach is located in Stanton Township, Michigan near Toivola and is named after the agate rocks that are found on the shore. "Lake Superior Agate...
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The Fairburn Agate is a type of gemstone found in the agate beds of Southwestern South Dakota and Northwestern Nebraska. It is also the state gemstone...
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Agate is an Indonesian video game development company based in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It was founded on April 1, 2009. It has worked with publishers...
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VE 110 Agate is the designation of an unguided French test rocket developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was part of the Pierres précieuses (fr...
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Agate Pass or Agate Passage is a high-current tidal strait in Puget Sound connecting Port Madison and mainland Kitsap County in the US state of Washington...
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Mariano Agate (19 May 1939 in Mazara del Vallo – 3 April 2013 in Mazara del Vallo) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of Mazara del Vallo...
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An agate (US) or ruby (UK) is a unit of typographical measure. It is 5.5 typographical points, or about 1⁄13 inch (1.94 mm). It can refer either to the...
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The Lake Superior agate is a type of agate stained by iron and found on the shores of Lake Superior. Its wide distribution and iron-rich bands of color...
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Agate is in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. Agate is located on Nebraska Highway 29, 19 miles (31 km) south-southeast of Harrison. It is home to...
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Interior Township, Michigan (redirect from Agate, Michigan)
the Ottawa National Forest. Agate is an unincorporated community on M-28, about eight miles east of Bruce Crossing. Agate Falls Scenic Site.[1] [2] on...
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The Agate Bowl (‹See Tfd›German: Achatschale) is a hardstone carving in the shape of a bowl cut out of a single piece of agate, possibly in the fourth...
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Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14, 1812 – January 5, 1846) was an American painter and miniaturist. Agate lived in New York from 1831 to 1838. He studied...
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main features of the monument are a valley of the Niobrara...
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The Agate Desert is a prairie located near White City, Oregon, 53 acres (21 ha) of which is protected as the Agate Desert Preserve. The area is not in...
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Fire agate, a variety of chalcedony, is a semi-precious natural gemstone discovered so far only in certain areas of central and northern Mexico and the...
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naval trawlers of the Royal Navy were named Agate: HMT Agate (1913), sunk in 1918 by SM UC-71 HMT Agate (1933), ran aground and sank in 1941 This article...
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Jeffery Stanford Agate OBE (1919 –1977) was the Managing Director of the DuPont manufacturing plant at Maydown, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland....
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Agate Caune (Latvian pronunciation: [ɑːgɑːtɛ saʊnɛ] ah-GAH-teh sown-eh; born 7 August 2004) is a Latvian track and field athlete. A multiple national champion...
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The Agate Pass Bridge is a structural steel truss cantilever bridge spanning Agate Pass, connecting Bainbridge Island to the Kitsap Peninsula. It was built...
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Condor agate was discovered and named by Luis de los Santos in 1993. It is found in the mountains near San Rafael, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. This...
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