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agate

Cryptocrystalline (with crystals too small to be seen with an optical microscope) silica, SiO2, composed of cloudy and banded chalcedony, sometimes mixed with opal, that forms in rock cavities.

Agate stones, being hard, are also used to burnish and polish gold applied to glass and ceramics and as clean vessels for grinding rock samples in laboratories.



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in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I me thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand
Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with the figure of a man aiming an arrow at a lion, and finally a costly table, which had once belonged to King Solomon.
They were agate gray and they looked too big for his face because they had black lashes all round them.
 
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