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EMERALDS
Emeralds are the bluish green to green variety of beryl, a mineral species that includes aquamarines.
Gem experts differ on the degree of green that makes one stone an emerald and another stone a less expensive green beryl. Some people in the trade tend to give the name emerald to any green beryl coloured by chromium but to most gemmologists, gemmological laboratories and coloured stone dealers, it is more correct to name a stone green beryl when its colour is :”too light” for it to be classified as emerald.
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