الصفحة الرئيسية > Term: bone turquoise
bone turquoise
A fossil bone or tooth colored deep blue by iron phosphate (vivianite), and rarely green by copper compounds, and resembling turquoise, such as that from the tusks of mammoths found in Siberia. It is cut and polished for jewelry.
- قسم من أقسام الكلام: noun
- المجال / النطاق: التعدين
- الفئة: تعدين عام; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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