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Peridot

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A named green olivine gem, chrysolite in older speech, later a jewelry stone. Not emerald, and not topaz.

Also known as Chrysolite

  • Peridot is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s chrysolithos speech among golden-green gems is the classical seat modern readers often map to peridot. A Roman-era pharmacological use filed on the peridot id, not topaz as the island topazos already walked here and not emerald.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · historically uncertain

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