Challenge your expertise with this hard-level crossword focused on specialized vocabulary in rare gemstone lore, including mineralogy, crystallography, and gem treatments.
Enigmatic Treasures of Gem Lore is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Enigmatic Treasures of Gem Lore
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- 1. Synthetic diamond simulant, flawless cubic zirconium oxide
- 2. Vivid orange variety of spessartine garnet with imperial etymology
- 3. Pink-to-violet spodumene variety discovered by a pioneering gemologist
- 4. Color change chrysoberyl famed for shifting daylight to incandescent
- 7. Rare manganese aluminum silicate named after a Tanzanian locality
- 8. Legendary Sri Lankan gem with a complex chemical tapestry
- 10. Rare blue barium titanium silicate, California’s official state gem
- 11. Hydrated phosphate revered from ancient Persian mines
- 13. Rival to ruby until often misidentified in royal crown jewels
- 16. Boron-bearing mineral once mistaken for spinel, elusive collector's gem
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- 5. Deep blue pigment ground from lazurite, lapis lazuli's essence
- 6. Cryptocrystalline quartz genus bearing agate and onyx brethren
- 9. Cat’s eye effect pillar in alexandrite and cymophane sequence
- 12. Corundum variant prized for cornflower hue and hardness
- 14. Threefold pleochroism marvel admired in mineralogical circles
- 15. Rare greenish to blue mineral, larimar’s geological cousin
- 17. Play-of-color gemstone composed of hydrated silica spheres
- 18. Rare red emerald variety hidden in Utah’s restricted deposits
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