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Gems
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Beryl
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Color:
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Ranges from red, pink to pale green and yellow.
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Everyone admires the green fire of emerald and the watery blue charm of aquamarine, but not many realize that they are different colors of the same mineral: beryl. There are other members of the beryl family much less known then their famous cousins. Pink and peach morganite, named after gem collector extraodinaire J.P. Morgan; heliodor, also known as golden beryl; rare red beryl, which is as red as emerald is green; pale green beryl, which is a green version of aquamarine; and colorless beryl, or goshenite, which shows off the brilliance of this gem family. In fact the word brilliance is probably derived from the ancient greek word for beryl, berullos, which means crystal..
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