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green so pure it forgives the flaws every emerald secretly hides inside.
means A vivid green gemstone, a variety of the mineral beryl colored by traces of chromium or vanadium.
from From Old French 'esmeralde,' from Latin 'smaragdus,' which came from Greek 'smaragdos' — a word the Greeks likely borrowed from the East, with possible roots in Semitic languages and an ultimate echo, some suggest, in Sanskrit 'marakata.' The stone traveled west along ancient trade routes, and the name picked up its softening 'e' and rolling syllables along the way, until 'smaragdus' had melted into the green-tinted 'emerald' we say today.
- flaws expected
- Inclusions called jardin, French for garden
- chromium trick
- Same element that reddens rubies greens emeralds
- oil bath
- Most are soaked in oil to hide cracks
- cleopatra craze
- She claimed Egypt's mines as her own
- rarer than diamond
- Top emeralds outprice diamonds per carat
muzo emerald mines — colombian mines producing ~50% of world's finest emeralds since the 16th century
khalifa emerald — 37.82-carat stone from zambia, one of the largest faceted emeralds in the world
mogul emerald — 217.80-carat carved mughal emerald from india, sold at christie's for $5.5m in 2008