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the blue-green stone so soft it pretends to be malachite, turquoise, or whatever sells better
name originGreek for gold glue, used soldering gold
gem traitortoo soft to cut alone, needs quartz backup
copper babyforms where copper ore slowly weathers away
famous fannamed by Theophrastus, Aristotle's botanist successor
color thiefimpostor sold as turquoise to unwary buyers