Definition of Aventorine
A*ven"tu*rine (&?;), n. [F.
aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A
kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the
first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass
filings into a pot of melted glass.
2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz,
spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with
internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals,
probably of hematite; sunstone.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
- A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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