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opal

Form of hydrous silica (SiO2.nH2O), often occurring as stalactites and found in many types of rock. The common opal is translucent, milk-white, yellow, red, blue, or green, and lustrous. Precious opal is opalescent, the characteristic play of colours being caused by close-packed silica spheres diffracting light rays within the stone.

Opal is cryptocrystalline, that is, the crystals are too fine to be detected under an optical microscope. Opals are found in Hungary; New South Wales, Australia (black opals were first discovered there in 1905); and Mexico (red fire opals).



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