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Enhancements
Dendritic agate is not enhanced.
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Dendritic Agate ...
Dendritic Agate: It is black or white in colour. The structure of this form of Agate is that of tree with trunk having big and small branches. It contains manganese oxide impurities that form the fabrications and so on.
[Dendritic agates and a dendritic sandstone piece]
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It is hard to generalize about such a highly diverse group, but one cannot go wrong to say that the rarer, more perfect, and beautiful the fossil, ...
Dendritic agates (above, left) and moss agates (above, right) have delicate fern-like patterns that are formed from the presence of iron and manganese ions.
Other forms of chalcedony are Onyx, Sard, Sardonxy, petrified dinosaur bone, chert, Flint, Fire Agate and Dendritic Agate. Because it is a porous stone, it can be stained or dyed to enhance or change the natural color of the stone.
agate (n) a gemstone belonging to chalcedony family which, in turn, belongs to a family of cryptocrystalline quartzes. Agates are found in an array of colors. There are many subtypes of agate, including banded agate, dendritic agate, fire agate, ...
 See also: Dendritic, Stone, Chalcedony, Quartz, Agate
  
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