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Agate, jewelry, varieties, colors and description. ... Agate occurs in most colors including black, gray, brown, reddish, green, pink, blue, and yellow from transparent to opaque. Today, many of these stones are artificially dyed to enhance the depth of color and to produce more vivid tones than those found in nature.
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Agate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Black Onyx: Sometimes referred to as Black agate, it actually is a form of banded agate containing layers of varying colors. The contrast between layers makes it ideal for cameos. Less expensive black jade and obsidian are sometimes used in its place.
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Actual granite may vary slightly from computer generated granite images. Please make final selection from actual granite samples.
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WJ seat colors / interior colors ... Interior seat and trim components are assigned a two digit code, such as "AZ" for Agate. In codes having a number for the second digit, like "K5" (Camel), the "5" designates the shade of the color. In this example, "5" technically designates "Medium Camel".
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The composition of agate varies greatly, but silica is always predominant, usually with alumina and oxide of iron. Agate comes in most colors. There are several types of agate. Common ones are: blue lace agate, moss agate, tree agate and petrified wood.
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Agates are endowed by nature with a typically banded appearance, but only in the rarest cases is a banded agate suitable for engraving. In the vast majority of stones, the individual colored layers are either irregular or not thick enough, or else their colors do not contrast sufficiently.
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