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Goshenite (Beryl) |
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Goshenite (Beryl) is the pure, colorless variety of beryl. It has been used to imitate diamond or emerald, by placing the silver or green-colored metal foil behind a cut geshenite gemstone, then placing the stone in a closed setting so that the foil cannot be detected.
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Goshenite is named after Goshen, Massachusetts, in the USA, where it was first found. Present localities include Canada, Brazil, and the former USSR.
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Pale and colorless beryl was once used for the lenses in spectacles, thus the German word for spectacles, brills, may have been derived from the word "beryl".
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