Dinosaur bone

Dinosaur Bone Facts, Information and Description
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Fossilized dinosaur bone, wood or ivory used in jewelry is a very soft material, and can easily be scratched, dented, or fractured.

Dinosaur Bone (-149)
aka Gem Bone
The stone people simply call dinosaur bone is more descriptively known as silicified (transformed into silica) fossil of dinosaur bone.

Dinosaur Bone
Petrified Dinosaur Bone or"dino bone" is the result of fossilized bone from dinosaurs in which the cellular structure has been replaced with quartz, leaving the bone structure intact.

Dinosaur Bone
Sometimes known as Gem Bone, Dinosaur Bone is more properly known as silicified fossil of dinosaur bone, where the bone has been replaced by chalcedony
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**Gems such as "petrified dinosaur bone" and many other "stony" fossil gems, are classified as mineral, rather than organic.

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.

Colorado and Utah -- These States have deposits of fine quality jasper, agate, petrified wood, and agatized dinosaur bone. These deposits are found over a large area of both States and on both sides of the continental divide in Colorado.

Other stones in this group are know as agate, jasper, petrified wood, bloodstone, petrified dinosaur bone, fire agate, tiger's eye, chrysocolla, chrysoprase, onyx, sardonyx, and carnelian.

Chalcedony includes carnelian, sard, plasma, prase, bloodstone, onyx, sardonyx, chrysoprase, thundereggs, agate, flint, chert, jasper, petrified wood, and petrified dinosaur bone just to name a few of the better known varieties.

Petrified Dinosaur Bone or "dinny bone" is the product of millenia-old fossilized bone (from dinosaurs!) in which the cellular contents have been replaced by quartz, leaving the cellular bone structure intact.

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