What is the difference between chalcedony and agate?

Both agate and chalcedony are crystalline quartz, which is collectively called agate in mineralogy. The gem world calls it agate.

Agate has a very long history in our country. As early as in the Neolithic Age, people already knew to use agate as a jewelry. According to Zhang Hong’s demonstration in Shiya: China used to call agate or Qiu in the Han Dynasty, and the magic lotus written by the Tang Dynasty. The Huajing said: Because the agate's color lines are similar to the horse's brain, and because the onyx "from the jade" is changed to 'agate'. The agate and chalcedony are pure white. The agate color is very rich due to the pigment ions and impurities. The common colors are red, blue, green, green, yellow, brown, purple, gray, black, etc., and have concentricity. Layered, corrugated, and striated patterns.

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Agate has been a popular mid-range jade since ancient times. The world's famous agate gemstone jewelry is too numerous to mention. About four thousand years ago, the Egyptians used agate to make an axe-like craft, which is now in the New York Museum of History. China's largest water agate agate art exhibition garden, weighing 7350 grams, the volume of the gallbladder is more than 1,100 cubic centimeters, and the water is 850 grams. The water bladder is wrapped in the form of agate, which is extremely precious and is a rare treasure.

Agate is a crystalline composition of extremely fine particles and contains many tiny voids. The existence of these voids becomes a channel for agate dyeing. According to research, the more water in the cavity, the easier it is to dye; but some people think that the structure of agate It is an important factor in dyeing. In short, because some striped agates have such dyeable and non-stainable properties, the dyed striped agate will show obvious differences and can be used as embossed materials. Cameo, developed by the German gem capital Ida Oberstein, is an artwork carved out of this characteristic of striped agate.

There are many world famous agate producing areas, and China is a big agate country. Brazil and China, Yunnan, produce red agate, large agate, Indian and American moss, and Russia, Iceland, India, the United States, and China produce gray agate. Because Brazil has found a very rich agate mine, agate has also been made into a large number of ornaments; Taiwan was once one of the main kingdoms of agate processing, and Kaohsiung is called agate nest because it is the concentration of processing plants. The processing technology from slicing, dyeing, dicing to grinding into beads, the development of consistent work, has also led to the rise of other gemstone industries. Because the color of green agate is jade, the green agate has the name of Australian jade, but its It is different from real jade. Taiwan's east coast produces many beautiful chalcedony and jasper, such as blue chalcedony, presidential stone (also known as dragon phoenix, iron-bearing agate), white agate, purple chalcedony, rice cake frozen jade, snowflake jade, blood jasper Wait, for a while, it attracted a lot of people. After the typhoon, it was a treasure trove in the eastern beach.

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