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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHALCEDONY, or CALCEDONY (sometimes called by old writers cassidoine)  , a variety of native
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silica, often used as an ornamental
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stone . The
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present application of the
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term is comparatively
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modern . The " chalcedonius " of
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Pliny was quite a different
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mineral, being a
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green stone from the
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copper-mines of
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Chalcedon, in
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Asia
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Minor, whence the name . There has been some confusion between
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chalcedony andthe
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ancient "carcedonia," a stone which seems to have been a
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carbuncle from
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Africa, brought by way of
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Carthage (KapXi6wv) .

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